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Title of Journal: Metascience
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Springer Netherlands
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Authors: Dario Tessicini
Publish Date: 2016/03/16
Volume: 25, Issue: 2, Pages: 251-253
Abstract
Gianfrancesco Sagredo 1571–1620 was the Venetian nobleman student and friend of Galileo immortalised as one of the characters of the Dialogue and of the Two New Sciences Always fond of his friend Galileo remembered him as his “idol” 16 years after his premature death While the Italian word refers to a “mental image or beloved object” 147 Francis Bacon’s distorted representations idola may also come to mind as an appropriate point of entry to the content of this book which is often concerned with the manipulation of texts and meanings with smokescreens and hoaxes and with other less than exemplary activities that are not so often associated with the making of natural philosophical knowledge In fact this study deals primarily with Sagredo’s strategies in creating circulating and manipulating texts and information for political purposes and with how the same or similar strategies are sometimes to be found as part of the making and circulation of Galilean texts As such
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