Reading through Galileo's Telescope. Margaret Cavendish and the Experience of Reading [*].

From: Renaissance Quarterly | Date: March 22, 2000| Author: SPILLER, ELIZABETH A. | Copyright information

This essay reassesses the role of reading in the context of seventeenth-century natural philosophy by analyzing Galileo Galilei's Starry Messenger and Margaret Cavendish's The Blazing World. The unreliability of telescopic vision becomes a dominant metaphor for the unreliability of reading printed texts. Where Galileo sought to put the reader in his own position as a scientific observer by making reading a form of observation, Cavendish used the telescopic image to show how readers...

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