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Book SynopsisThis important text will be of interest to a wide range of historians-of science, of scholarly practices and the book, and of early-modern intellectual and cultural history.
Trade ReviewThis work provides an interesting historical examination of Galileo’s original text. Recommended
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ChoiceRaphael’s book is an uncommon and very welcome contribution to the ever-growing Galileo scholarship.
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Annals of ScienceEye-opening...Raphael's brilliant epilogue has far-reaching implications for narratives of change. Her critique of the prevailing historiography of the Scientific Revolution highlights deep flaws in its warfare model of change, in which traditionalists fight innovators and noncombatants are irrelevant. Leading by example, she suggests that researchers learn to appreciate that most readers neither embrace nor reject novelty in toto. The pick-and-choose eclecticism that Raphael has found among readers of
Two New Sciences makes for less triumphalist melodrama, but much more convincing history.
—Michael H. Shank, University of Wisconsin–Madison,
Renaissance QuarterlyRenée Raphael's
Reading Galileo: Scribal Technologies and the "Two New Sciences" gives a telling account of the reception of a seminal work of the Scientific Revolution, which has wider implications for the history of reading and of the nature of intellectual traditions at the time more generally.
—Michael Hunter, Birkbeck, University of London,
American Historical ReviewTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1 An anonymous annotator, Baliani, and the "ideal" readerChapter 2 Editing, Commenting, and Learning Math from GalileoChapter 3 Modifying authoritative reading to new purposesChapter 4 An annotated book of many usesChapter 5 The University of Pisa and a Dialogue between Old and NewChapter 6 Jesuit bookish practices applied to the Two New SciencesEpilogue NotesBibliographyIndex
