TY  - BOOK
AU  - Reeves,Eileen Adair
TI  - Galileo's Glassworks: The Telescope and the Mirror 
SN  - 9780674026674
AV  - QB85.8 .R44 2008eb
U1  - 522/.2092 22
PY  - 2009///]
CY  - Cambridge, MA : 
PB  - Harvard University Press, 
KW  - Astronomical instruments
KW  - Europe
KW  - History
KW  - 17th century
KW  - Mirrors
KW  - Experiments
KW  - Optical instruments
KW  - Science
KW  - Telescopes
KW  - SCIENCE / History
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction: The Hague, 1608 --; 1. The Daily Mirror of Empire --; 2. Idle Inventions --; 3. Obscure Procedures and Odd Opponents --; 4. The Dutch Telescope and the French Mirror --; 5. The Afterlife of a Legend --; Notes --; Acknowledgments --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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
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