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Galileo, Courtier : The Practice of Science in the Culture of Absolutism (Science and Its Conceptual Foundations series)
Galileo Courtier The Practice of Science in the Culture of Absolutism - Science and Its Conceptual Foundations series
Author: Mario Biagioli
Informed by currents in sociology, cultural anthropology, and literary theory, Galileo, Courtier is neither a biography nor a conventional history of science. In the court of the Medicis and the Vatican, Galileo fashioned both his career and his science to the demands of patronage and its complex systems of wealth, power, and prestige. Bi...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780226045597
ISBN-10: 0226045595
Publication Date: 9/15/1993
Pages: 416
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Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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