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Evening News
- Optics, Astronomy, and Journalism in Early Modern Europe
Engelsk Hardback
Evening News
- Optics, Astronomy, and Journalism in Early Modern Europe
Engelsk Hardback

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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.
Early modern news writers and consumers often understood journalistic texts in terms of recent developments in optics and astronomy, Reeves demonstrates, even as many of the first discussions of telescopic phenomena such as planetary satellites, lunar craters, sunspots, and comets were conditioned by accounts of current events. She charts how the deployment of particular technologies of vision—the telescope and the camera obscura—were adapted to comply with evolving notions of objectivity, censorship, and civic awareness. Detailing the differences between various types of printed and manuscript news and the importance of regional, national, and religious distinctions, Evening News emphasizes the ways in which information moved between high and low genres and across geographical and confessional boundaries in the first decades of the seventeenth century.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
320
ISBN-13:
9780812245745
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0812245741
Udg. Dato:
23 apr 2014
Længde:
29mm
Bredde:
163mm
Højde:
235mm
Forlag:
University of Pennsylvania Press
Oplagsdato:
23 apr 2014
Forfatter(e):
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