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

TABLE OF CONTENTS I. Introduction II. Astronomy, Astrology, and Poetics in Seventeenth-Century Italy 1. Sarrocchi and Galileo in Rome 2. Science and the Scanderbeide 3. Sarrocchi's Scanderbeide and Galileo's "Enemy Eye" 4. The Controversy Over Galileo's "Medicean Stars" 5. Reading the Stars 6. Diverging Paths III. Letters of Margherita Sarrocchi and Galileo (With Three Related Letters)