{"product_id":"galileos-telescope-massimo-bucciantini-9780674736917","title":"Galileo's Telescope: A European Story","description":"\u003cp\u003eBetween 1608 and 1610 the canopy of the night sky changed forever, ripped open by an object created almost by accident: a cylinder with lenses at both ends. \u003ci\u003eGalileo's Telescope \u003c\/i\u003etells the story of how an ingenious optical device evolved from a toy-like curiosity into a precision scientific instrument, all in a few years. In transcending the limits of human vision, the telescope transformed humanity's view of itself and knowledge of the cosmos. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eGalileo plays a leading--but by no means solo--part in this riveting tale. He shares the stage with mathematicians, astronomers, and theologians from Paolo Sarpi to Johannes Kepler and Cardinal Bellarmine, sovereigns such as Rudolph II and James I, as well as craftsmen, courtiers, poets, and painters. Starting in the Netherlands, where a spectacle-maker created a spyglass with the modest magnifying power of three, the telescope spread like technological wildfire to Venice, Rome, Prague, Paris, London, and ultimately India and China. Galileo's celestial discoveries--hundreds of stars previously invisible to the naked eye, lunar mountains, and moons orbiting Jupiter--were announced to the world in his revolutionary treatise \u003ci\u003eSidereus Nuncius\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCombining science, politics, religion, and the arts, \u003ci\u003e Galileo's Telescope \u003c\/i\u003erewrites the early history of a world-shattering innovation whose visual power ultimately came to embody meanings far beyond the science of the stars.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Massimo Bucciantini, Michele Camerota, Franco Giudice\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0674736915\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674736917\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/23\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.90h x 6.90w x 1.30d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/15\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/15\/2015 pg. 128\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/04\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2015","brand":"Massimo Bucciantini","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44054602875135,"sku":"9780674736917","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_efdafafe-edc7-4f10-8687-81c1535f0d98.jpg?v=1685030904","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/galileos-telescope-massimo-bucciantini-9780674736917","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}