Galileo's Telescope Quotes

“This may be the first case in which a secret—and a scientific invention—immediately gained such vast public and international prominence that it crossed every geographical barrier, was projected throughout the known world, and did not merely remain within the confines of the Republic of Letters. It is also because of this that our book can be defined as belonging to the social history of science.”
― Massimo Bucciantini, Galileo's Telescope: A European Story