Nick Wilding
Nick Wilding is a British historian of science . He became internationally known in connection with the alleged Galileo drawings , which he exposed as forgeries.
Life
Wilding studied English at New College (Oxford) . After receiving his BA with the highest honors in 1992, he did his Masters at the University of Warwick in 1993 with a thesis on Renaissance . He then conducted research at the European University Institute in Florence and received his PhD in 2000 with a dissertation on natural philosophy and communication in early modern Europe.
As a postdoc he did research at Stanford University and from 2002 to 2005 at the University of Cambridge . In 2005/2006 Wilding conducted research at Columbia University , 2006/2007 at the University of Miami , and since 2007 he has been teaching as an assistant professor at Georgia State University .
In 2012, Wilding was able to prove on the basis of a forensic collection of evidence that a special edition of the Sidereus Nuncius by Galileo Galilei , which appeared in 2005 and which had been found to be authentic by an international research group led by the German art historian Horst Bredekamp , was a forgery . which had been brought into the US antique trade by Marino Massimo De Caro .
Fonts (selection)
- Galileo's idol: Gianfrancesco Sagredo and the politics of knowledge . University of Chicago Press, Chicago 2014
Web links
- Literature by and about Nick Wilding in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Nick Wilding's CV , accessed January 2, 2014
- Georgia State University Library Blog, GSU Faculty Member Uncovers Fake Book Sold By Corrupt Library Director , accessed January 2, 2014
Individual evidence
- ↑ Seth: An Almost Perfect Forgery ( Memento of the original from January 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. dated February 17, 2013, accessed January 2, 2014
- ↑ Daniel Fischer in Skyweek Zwei Punkt Null on June 26, 2012, “Nuncius” with pictures allegedly painted by Galileo himself, apparently completely forgery , accessed on January 5, 2014
- ↑ Nico Schmidt in The Magic of the Stars on June 26, 2012, Bredekamp's “Sidereus Nuncius” copy involved in forgery scandal? , accessed January 4, 2014
- ↑ Stefano Gattei in Book Reviews on the History of Science on December 10, 2012: Horst Bredekamp (ed.), Galileo's O ( Memento of the original from January 4, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked . Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed January 4, 2014
- ↑ Andrea Albrecht , Giovanna Cordibella, Volker Remmert (organizers), final report for the DFG Villa Vigoni discussion "Inkwell and Telescope" - Galileo Galilei at the intersection of scientific, literary and visual cultures in the European 17th century , seminar from 2nd to 5th September 2012, accessed January 2, 2014
- ↑ Elisabetta Povoledo: At Root of Italy Library's Plunder, a Tale of Entrenched Practices , The New York Times, August 11, 2012, accessed January 1, 2014
- ↑ Nicholas Schmidle: “A Very Rare Book”. The mystery surrounding a copy of Galileo's pivotal treatise , The New Yorker , December 16, 2013, p. 62
- ↑ Stephan Speicher: Behind the Moon , Süddeutsche Zeitung , December 21, 2013, p. 11
- ↑ Hanno Rauterberg: The fake moon , Die Zeit , December 27, 2013, accessed on December 29, 2013
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Wilding, Nick |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British historian of science |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |