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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. In this fascinating cultural and social history of science, Biagioli argues that Galileo's courtly role was integral to his science - the questions he chose to examine, his methods, even his conclusions.

Galileo, Courtier: The Practice of Science in the Culture of Absolutism

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    Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
    Publication Date: 01/11/1994
    ISBN13: 9780226045603, 978-0226045603
    ISBN10: 0226045609

    Number of Pages: 416

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    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. In this fascinating cultural and social history of science, Biagioli argues that Galileo's courtly role was integral to his science - the questions he chose to examine, his methods, even his conclusions.

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