Galileo’s Telescope: A European Story

<h4 class="p1"><span class="s1">Paula Findlen teaches in the History Department at Stanford University and is the author of many works on science and culture in the age of Galileo, including <i>Possessing Nature: Museums, Collecting and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy</i>.</span></h4>

Paula Findlen

The Spyglass and the Astronomer: Seeing Galileo in Perspective

"There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers' battle with the heavens that cover them." — Federico García Lorca

Nonfiction

"The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not." — Gertrude Stein

Science &amp; Technology

<span class="s1">Paula Findlen teaches in the History Department at Stanford University and is the author of many works on science and culture in the age of Galileo, including <i>Possessing Nature: Museums, Collecting and Scientific Culture in Early Modern Italy</i>.</span>