Nick Wilding
An innovative, valuable, and brilliantly researched study of the initial reception and multiple uses of one of the most important books in the history of science. Using a sophisticated and well-chosen methodology, Raphael convincingly establishes the relationship between individual actors' reading techniques and their intellectual ecosystems
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An innovative, valuable, and brilliantly researched study of the initial reception and multiple uses of one of the most important books in the history of science. Using a sophisticated and well-chosen methodology, Raphael convincingly establishes the relationship between individual actors' reading techniques and their intellectual ecosystems—Nick Wilding, Georgia State University
An important, innovative work, extensively and meticulously researched.—Nick Jardine, University of Cambridge
Through remarkable research in manuscript materials that have never been studied before, Renée Raphael takes us into the mental processes of early modern readers, some famous, some not, as they grappled with Galileo’s Two New Sciences. In this wonderfully innovative blend of history of science and book history, we learn about Galileo’s sciences of matter and motion, but also about methods of reading, note-taking, and teaching through which contemporaries absorbed this work into their thinking, often in more traditional ways than we might expect.—Ann Blair, Harvard University
Ann Blair
Through remarkable research in manuscript materials that have never been studied before, Renée Raphael takes us into the mental processes of early modern readers, some famous, some not, as they grappled with Galileo’s Two New Sciences. In this wonderfully innovative blend of history of science and book history, we learn about Galileo’s sciences of matter and motion, but also about methods of reading, note-taking, and teaching through which contemporaries absorbed this work into their thinking, often in more traditional ways than we might expect.
Nick Jardine
An important, innovative work, extensively and meticulously researched.