Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Jesuits on the Moon -- Chapter 2. Medici Stars and the Medici Regency -- Chapter 3. Galileo Gazzettante -- Chapter 4. Cameras That Don't Lie -- Chapter 5. Cameras That Do -- Chapter 6. Rapid Transport -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Acknowledgments
Summary
Eileen Reeves examines the ways in which a long-standing association of reportage with covert surveillance and astrological prediction was altered by the near simultaneous emergence of weekly newsheets, the invention of the Dutch telescope, and the appearance of Galileo Galilei's astronomical treatise, The Starry Messenger
