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Author Reeves, Eileen Adair, author.

Title Galileo's glassworks : the telescope and the mirror / Eileen Reeves
Published Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (231 pages) : illustrations
Contents The daily mirror of empire -- Idle inventions -- Obscure procedures and odd opponents -- The Dutch telescope and the French mirror -- The afterlife of a legend
Summary Galileo and the Dutch telescope have long enjoyed a durable connection in the popular mind, transforming a rather modest middle-aged scholar into the icon of the Copernican Revolution. And yet the speed with which the telescope changed the course of Galileo's life and early modern astronomy obscures his actual delayed encounter with the instrument. This book considers the lapse between the telescope's 1608 creation in The Hague and Galileo's acquaintance with such news ten months later. Along the way, Reeves offers a revised chronology of Galileo's life in this critical period
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-218) and index
Notes In English
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Subject Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642.
SUBJECT Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642 fast
Subject Astronomical instruments -- Europe -- History -- 17th century
Telescopes -- Europe -- History -- 17th century
Optical instruments -- Europe -- History -- 17th century
Mirrors -- Experiments -- History -- 17th century
Science -- History -- 17th century
NATURE -- Sky Observation.
HISTORY -- Modern -- 17th Century.
Astronomical instruments
Mirrors -- Experiments
Optical instruments
Science
Telescopes
Europe
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780674042636
0674042638