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The Sidereus Nuncius, The Nova Controversies, and Galileo's “Copernican Silence” The Sidereus Nuncius, The Nova Controversies, and Galileo's “Copernican Silence”
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Through a Macro Lens Through a Macro Lens
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The Reception of the Sidereus Nuncius and the Telescope, Mid-March to Early May 1610 The Reception of the Sidereus Nuncius and the Telescope, Mid-March to Early May 1610
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Kepler's Philosophical Conversation with Galileo and his Book Kepler's Philosophical Conversation with Galileo and his Book
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Galileo's Negotiations with the Tuscan Court, May 1610 Galileo's Negotiations with the Tuscan Court, May 1610
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Virtual Witnessing, Print, and the Great Resistance Virtual Witnessing, Print, and the Great Resistance
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Magini's Strategic Retreat and the 7/11 Problem Magini's Strategic Retreat and the 7/11 Problem
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Galileo and Kepler the Denouement Galileo and Kepler the Denouement
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Scottish Scientific Diplomacy Scottish Scientific Diplomacy
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John Wedderburn's Confutatio John Wedderburn's Confutatio
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Galileo's Novelties and the Jesuits Galileo's Novelties and the Jesuits
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18 How Galileo's Recurrent Novelties Traveled
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Published:July 2011
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Abstract
Some influential interpreters of his first major printed book, Sidereus Nuncius, have underscored Galileo's straightforward empiricist style in reporting observations and avoiding aggressive, systematic theorizing. An important function of this reading has been to dissociate Galileo from the Copernican convictions that he so clearly expressed in the 1597 letters to Jacopo Mazzoni and Johannes Kepler. Richard Westfall and Mario Biagioli proposed that Galileo's downplaying of cosmology involved a proximate political consideration; in Westfall's words, he “saw the telescope more as an instrument of patronage than as an instrument of astronomy.” This chapter examines how Galileo's telescope and Sidereus Nuncius, together or separately, succeeded first in stabilizing the representations of the heavens that Galileo promoted and how this outcome affected the Copernican question. It also discusses Galileo's return to Florence and his negotiations with the Tuscan court in May 1610, John Wedderburn's “refutation” (confutatio) of Martin Horky's “four problems against the Nuncius Sidereus,” and Galileo's novelties and the Jesuits.
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