Margherita Sarrocchi's Letters to Galileo: Astronomy, Astrology, and Poetics in Seventeenth-Century Italy

by Meredith K. Ray

Book Overview

This book examines a pivotal moment in the history of science and women's place in it. Meredith Ray offers the first in-depth study and complete English translation of the fascinating correspondence between Margherita Sarrocchi (1560-1617), a natural philosopher and author of the epic poem, Scanderbeide (1623), and famed astronomer, Galileo Galilei. Their correspondence, undertaken soon after the publication of Galileo's Sidereus Nuncius,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349955779
• ISBN13: 9781349955770
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 98 Pages
• Weight: 0.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.8" x 8.3"