Reading Galileo: Scribal Technologies and the Two New Sciences
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How did early modern scientists interpret Galileo’s influential Two New Sciences?
In 1638, Galileo was over seventy years old, blind, and confined to house arrest outside of Florence. With the help of friends and family, he managed to complete and smuggle to the Netherlands a manuscript that became his final published work, Two New Sciences. Treating diverse subjects that became the foundations of mechanical engineering and physics, this book is often depicted as the definitive expression of...























