"Galileo s Idol" offers a vivid depiction of Galileo s friend, student, and patron, Gianfrancesco Sagredo (15711620). Sagredo s life, which has never before been studied in depth, brings to light the inextricable relationship between the production, distribution, and reception of political information and scientific knowledge. Nick Wilding uses as wide a variety of sources as possiblepaintings, ornamental woodcuts, epistolary hoaxes, intercepted letters, murder case files, and othersto challenge the picture of early modern science as pious, serious, and ecumenical. Through his analysis...
"Galileo s Idol" offers a vivid depiction of Galileo s friend, student, and patron, Gianfrancesco Sagredo (15711620). Sagredo s life, which has never ...