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

by Eileen Reeves

Eileen Reeves examines a web of connections between journalism, optics, and astronomy in early modern Europe, devoting particular attention to 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812245741
• ISBN13: 9780812245745
• Release Date: April 2014
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.2"