Galileo's Library: Data, Methods, and the Humanities (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780197911174)

Vendor: Crystal Hall
Product type: Books
Format: Hardcover
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Galileo's Library: Data, Methods, and the Humanities

$165.00

Galileo's Library: Data, Methods, and the Humanities

$165.00
Format: Hardcover
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Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) amassed an impressive personal library over his lifetime. Reuniting 800 such items, Crystal Hall tells a story of fame and infamy, breakthroughs and frustrations, forgery and authenticity. The meaning of Galileo's library changes each time the books are represented in different kinds of texts, including existing letters, citations of authors in books that Galileo wrote, his annotations, and household inventories made when members of his family died. Hall examines both what these documents say, and what they omit in the story of the Galilei family libraries.

Analytical perspectives from digital humanities, feminist data science, history of science, and literary analysis shed new light on Galileo's role in book circulation. With Galilean inspiration, the author proposes a telescopic reading of the data and data visualizations, a reading that prioritizes anomalies, resists inherited categories, searches for change over time, and emphasizes contextualization to see often unseen trends and structures in this collection of books and manuscripts.

Author: Crystal Hall
ISBN-10: 019791117X
ISBN-13: 9780197911174
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Language: English
Published: 09/15/2026
Pages: 416
Format: Hardcover
By Crystal Hall
By Crystal Hall
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Crystal Hall, Associate Professor of Digital Humanities, Bowdoin College

Crystal Hall is Associate Professor of Digital Humanities in Digital and Computational Studies and an affiliated faculty member of Italian Studies at Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. She has spent almost two decades studying the relationships between Galileo and the literature of his time. Her broader research and teaching in Digital Humanities explore the relationships between technology, textual expression, and the creation of knowledge with specializations in pre-modern Italy and the digital and computational artifacts of the twenty-first-century United States.

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