Mark A Kalthoff

"The sky is not a God but, rather, a book in which we see His greatest wonders painted on its pages and sides, and on the front of which we can almost find the name of the creator who made this." [...]wrote Cardinal Federico Borromeo, the Archbishop of Milan, in the early seventeenth century, giving voice to his natural theological convictions. First published in 2012 in Turin, Italy, Galileo's Telescope has now become available in English thanks to Catherine Bolton's translation. [...]as the authors explicitly avow, the principal task of the book is to present an "experiment in cartography and the cross-referencing of texts in an attempt to offer an overall vision of the circulation of the telescope in Europe" (169).