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Evening News: Optics, Astronomy, and Journalism in Early Modern Europe

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Evening News: Optics, Astronomy, and Journalism in Early Modern Europe - Reeves, Eileen
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Eileen Reeves examines the ways in which a long-standing association of reportage with covert surveillance and astrological prediction was altered by the near simultaneous emergence of weekly newsheets, the invention of the Dutch telescope, and the appearance of Galileo Galilei's astronomical treatise, The Starry Messenger .

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Evening News: Optics, Astronomy, and Journalism in Early Modern Europe 2014, University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia

ISBN-13: 9780812245745

Hardcover