03997nam 2200721 450 991046470370332120211008021733.00-8122-0948-610.9783/9780812209488(CKB)3710000000092473(SSID)ssj0001189737(PQKBManifestationID)11682123(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001189737(PQKBWorkID)11177866(PQKB)11557975(MiAaPQ)EBC3442347(OCoLC)876736277(MdBmJHUP)muse33001(DE-B1597)449822(OCoLC)878136213(DE-B1597)9780812209488(Au-PeEL)EBL3442347(CaPaEBR)ebr10846135(CaONFJC)MIL682535(EXLCZ)99371000000009247320130912h20142014 uy| 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrEvening news optics, astronomy, and journalism in early modern Europe /Eileen ReevesFirst edition.Philadelphia :University of Pennsylvania Press,[2014]©20141 online resource (315 pages)Material textsBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph1-322-51253-1 0-8122-4574-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --Introduction --Chapter 1. Jesuits on the Moon --Chapter 2. Medici Stars and the Medici Regency --Chapter 3. Galileo Gazzettante --Chapter 4. Cameras That Don’t Lie --Chapter 5. Cameras That Do --Chapter 6. Rapid Transport --Conclusion --Notes --Bibliography --Index --AcknowledgmentsEileen 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.Material texts.JournalismEuropeHistory17th centuryNewspaper publishingEffect of technological innovations onEuropeHistory17th centuryOpticsSocial aspectsEuropeHistory17th centuryAstronomySocial aspectsEuropeHistory17th centuryEuropeIntellectual life17th centuryElectronic books.JournalismHistoryNewspaper publishingEffect of technological innovations onHistoryOpticsSocial aspectsHistoryAstronomySocial aspectsHistory070.9/032Reeves Eileen Adair1031053MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910464703703321Evening news2470044UNINA