Galileo's idol : Gianfrancesco Sagredo and the politics of knowledge / Nick Wilding.

Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, [2014]

200 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 25 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-192) and index.

The generation and dissolution of images -- Becoming a "great magneticall man" -- Drawing weapons -- Interceptions -- Interconnections -- Transalpine messengers -- Masks -- Conclusion: science, intercepted.