Ray, Meredith K.

Margherita Sarrocchi's Letters to Galileo Astronomy, Astrology, and Poetics in Seventeenth-Century Italy / [electronic resource] : by Meredith K. Ray. - New York : Palgrave Macmillan US(Imprint) 2016. - XII, 98 p. 1 illus. online resource. - Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine . - Palgrave Studies in Literature, Science and Medicine .

I. Introduction -- II. Astronomy, Astrology, and Poetics in Seventeenth-Century Italy -- Sarrocchi and Galileo in Rome -- Science and the Scanderbeide -- Sarrocchi's Scanderbeide and Galileo's "Enemy Eye" -- The Controversy Over Galileo's "Medicean Stars" -- Reading the Stars -- Diverging Paths -- III. Letters of Margherita Sarrocchi and Galileo (With Three Related Letters) .

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European literature.
Sociology.
Literature-History and criticism.
Early Modern/Renaissance Literature.
Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology.
Poetry and Poetics.

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