Becoming-media: Galileo's telescope

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Volumn , Issue 29, 2007, Pages 15-25

  Vogl, Joseph ^a  

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EID: 65849291133     PISSN: 15263819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/grey.2007.1.29.14     Document Type: Review

References (13)

1. Galileo Galilei, Sidereus nuncius, or, The Sidereal Messenger, trans. Albert van Helden (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989), 38
2. The following considerations draw in particular on the groundbreaking analyses of Hans Blumenberg. See Hans Blumenberg, "Das Fernrohr und die Ohnmacht dor Wahrheit," in Galileo Galilei, Sidereus nuncius, ed. Hans Blumenberg (Frankfurt: Insel, 1965)
3. Hans Blumenberg, The Genesis of the Copernican World (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1987)
4. and Hans Blumenberg, The Legitimacy of the Modern Age (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1983)
5. Galileo, Sidereus nuncius, 39
6. Johannes Kepler, Dioptrik (1611; Leipzig: Engelmann, 1904), 3-4, 28
7. Svetlana Alpers, The Art of Describing (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983), 34. Alpers cites Kepler's Ad vitellionem paralipomena, quibus astronomiae pars optica traditur (1604)
8. Galileo Galilei, "Letter to the Grand Duchess," in The Galileo Affair: A Documentary History, ed. Maurice A. Finocchiaro (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1989), 103-104
9. translation modified. See also Blumenberg, "Das Fernrohr und die Ohnmacht der Wahrheit," 21, 38
10. Or, the media-function is documented in the constitutive distortion of that which is mediated. See Michel Serres, The Parasite, trans. Lawrence R. Schehr (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982)
11. See Joseph Vogl, "Kraterlandschaft," in Umwege des Lesens: Aus dem Labor philologischer Neugierde, ed. Caroline Welsh and Christoph Hoffmann (Berlin: Parerga, 2006), 303-316
12. See Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1993), 83
13. See Jack Goody and Ian Watt, "The Consequences of Literacy," Literacy in Traditional Societies, ed. Jack Goody (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1968), 27-68; Eisenstein, 226-237