Name Nick Wilding | Role Historian | |
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Books Galileo's Idol: Gianfrancesco Sagredo and the Politics of Knowledge | ||
Rochdale history by john cole and nick wilding
Nick Wilding is a British historian. He became internationally known in connection with the alleged Galileo drawings which he exposed as fakes.
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Nick wilding symposium
Life
Wilding studied English at New College, Oxford. After his B. A. with highest honors in 1992 he made in 1993 at the University of Warwick his Masters with a thesis on Renaissance. Subsequently, he conducted research at the European University Institute and in 2000 he received his doctorate for PhD with a dissertation on natural philosophy and communication in early modern Europe.
He carried out postdoctoral research at Stanford University, and from 2002 to 2005 at University of Cambridge. 2005/2006 Wilding was at Columbia University, 2006/2007 at University of Miami, and since 2007 as Assistant Professor at Georgia State University.
In 2012 Wilding was able to prove on the basis of forensic evidence that a special edition of Sidereus Nuncius of Galileo Galilei consisting of unknown ink drawings which was found in 2005 and designated as authentic actually was a fake that had been brought by the Italian antiquarian Marino Massimo De Caro in the U.S. antique trade.