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    Galileo’s Glassworks: The Telescope and the Mirror

    Eileen Reeves

    This book considers the lapse between the Dutch telescope’s 1608 creation in The Hague and Galileo’s acquaintance with such news ten months later. Along the way, Reeves offers a revised…

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    On Sunspots

    Galileo Galilei,Christoph Scheiner

    Galileo’s telescopic discoveries, and especially his observation of sunspots, caused great debate in an age when the heavens were thought to be perfect and unchanging. This title features a collection…

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    Helen of Bikini

    Phoebe Reeves

    Helen of Bikini examines the way humans inhabit the world, both in beauty and in conflict. How do the twinned human forces of domestication and domination, rage and mediation, witness…

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    Evening News: Optics, Astronomy, and Journalism in Early Modern Europe

    Eileen Reeves

    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…

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