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''Galileo's Glassworks'' is a book by Eileen Reeves, published by Harvard University Press.

From the back cover:

<blockquote>
The telescope was 'invented' in 1608. But what about the events leading up to it? Galileo and his contemporaries were searching for a device with which 'from an incredible distance we might read the smallest letters.' Eileen Reeves tells a story of 'cultural optics': magical mirrors and political intrigue, and investigators looking for magnifying power in all the wrong places, while the solution lay in the humble spectacle lenses on their noses.
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== See also ==

* [[Galileo]]

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Karl Jones: Created page with "''Galileo's Glassworks'' is a book by Eileen Reeves, published by Harvard University Press. From the back cover: The telescope was 'invented' in 1608. But what..."

Karl Jones: Created page with "''Galileo's Glassworks'' is a book by Eileen Reeves, published by Harvard University Press. From the back cover:
The telescope was 'invented' in 1608. But what..."