Evening news : optics, astronomy, and journalism in early modern Europe / / Eileen Reeves

• Autore: Reeves Eileen Adair
• Pubblicazione: Philadelphia : , : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2014]; ©2014
• Edizione: First edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (315 pages)
• Disciplina: 070.9/032
• Soggetto topico: Journalism - Europe - History - 17th century; Newspaper publishing - Effect of technological innovations on - Europe - History - 17th century; Optics - Social aspects - Europe - History - 17th century; Astronomy - Social aspects - Europe - History - 17th century
• Soggetto geografico: Europe Intellectual life 17th century
• Soggetto non controllato: Astronomy; History; Medieval and Renaissance Studies
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 -- Acknowledgments
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Evening news
• ISBN: 0-8122-0948-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910810698603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Material texts.