Nick Wilding, Georgia State University
Lehigh University
Thursday, November 14th, 2013, 4:10pm
Scheler Family Humanities Forum (Room 200), Linderman Library, Lehigh University
Professor Nick Wilding will present a talk about his recent work recognizing a copy of Galileo’s Sidereus Nuncius as a forgery. It had been authenticated in 2011 by a team of experts as Galileo's autograph proof copy, and valued at $10M.
Nick Wilding is Assistant Professor in Early Modern History at Georgia State University. He works on seventeenth-century natural philosophy, and has published articles on Galileo, Hooke and Kircher. He has held fellowships at Cambridge, Stanford, Columbia and the American Academy in Rome, and is a Mellon Fellow in Critical Bibliography at the Rare Book School, University of Virginia.
Wilding's book, Galileo's Idol: Gianfrancesco Sagredo and the Republic of Knowledge is under contract with Chicago University Press. Sponsored by Friends of the Lehigh University Libraries. Light refreshments will be served. This event is free and open to the public. Call 610-758-3039 for more information.
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