{"product_id":"galileos-idol-nick-wilding-9780226166971","title":"Galileo's Idol: Gianfrancesco Sagredo and the Politics of Knowledge","description":"\u003ci\u003eGalileo's Idol\u003c\/i\u003e offers a vivid depiction of Galileo's friend, student, and patron, Gianfrancesco Sagredo (1571-1620). 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Nick Wilding uses as wide a variety of sources as possible--paintings, ornamental woodcuts, epistolary hoaxes, intercepted letters, murder case files, and others--to challenge the picture of early modern science as pious, serious, and ecumenical. Through his analysis of the figure of Sagredo, Wilding offers a fresh perspective on Galileo as well as new questions and techniques for the study of science. The result is a book that turns our attention from actors as individuals to shifting collective subjects, often operating under false identities; from a world made of sturdy print to one of frail instruments and mistranscribed manuscripts; from a complacent Europe to an emerging system of complex geopolitics and globalizing information systems; and from an epistemology based on the stolid problem of eternal truths to one generated through and in the service of playful, politically engaged, and cunning schemes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Nick Wilding\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 022616697X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226166971\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/19\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.20w x 0.70d","brand":"Nick Wilding","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48447599182079,"sku":"9780226166971","price":38.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_9726f9f1-1253-4b1c-ac6e-a3d09f10a6d3.jpg?v=1777233764","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/galileos-idol-nick-wilding-9780226166971","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}