books.google.co.uk - Informed by currents in sociology, cultural anthropology, and literary theory, Galileo, Courtier is neither a biography nor a conventional history of science. In the court of the Medicis and the Vatican, Galileo fashioned both his career and his science to the demands of patronage and its complex systems...https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Galileo_Courtier.html?id=P-KJeS6ocsoC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareGalileo, Courtier