Title Galileo's glassworks : the telescope and the mirror / Eileen Reeves.

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Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008.

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Description	1 online resource (231 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-218) and index.
Contents	The daily mirror of empire -- Idle inventions -- Obscure procedures and odd opponents -- The Dutch telescope and the French mirror -- The afterlife of a legend.
Note	Print version record.
Subject	Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642.
	Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642.
	Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642. (OCoLC)fst00029756
	Astronomical instruments -- Europe -- History -- 17th century.
	Telescopes -- Europe -- History -- 17th century.
	Optical instruments -- Europe -- History -- 17th century.
	Mirrors -- Experiments -- History -- 17th century.
	Science -- History -- 17th century.
	NATURE -- Sky Observation.
	HISTORY -- Modern -- 17th Century.
	Astronomical instruments. (OCoLC)fst00819641
	Mirrors -- Experiments. (OCoLC)fst01023584
	Optical instruments. (OCoLC)fst01046734
	Science. (OCoLC)fst01108176
	Telescopes. (OCoLC)fst01146496
	Europe. (OCoLC)fst01245064
Chronological Term	1600 - 1699
Genre/Form	History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Reeves, Eileen Adair. Galileo's glassworks. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2008 9780674026674 0674026675 (DLC) 2007005089 (OCoLC)82472977
ISBN	9780674042636 (electronic bk.)
	0674042638 (electronic bk.)

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