Anna-Luna Post
Historian based at Leiden University and author of Galileo’s Fame: Science, Credibility, and Memory in the Seventeenth Century (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2025), specializing in early modern fame, scientific culture, and intellectual networks.
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Feb 25, 2026 • 59min
Anna-Luna Post, "Galileo’s Fame: Science, Credibility, and Memory in the Seventeenth Century" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2025)
Anna-Luna Post, historian at Leiden University who studies early modern fame and scientific culture. She traces how networks, brokers, poets, patrons, and institutions made and remade Galileo’s reputation. Short scenes cover contested discoveries, character and regional stereotypes, court strategies, pulpit denunciations, and the fractured public sphere that shaped his memory.
Feb 25, 2026 • 59min
Anna-Luna Post, "Galileo’s Fame: Science, Credibility, and Memory in the Seventeenth Century" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2025)
Anna-Luna Post, a Leiden historian of early modern fame, explores how Galileo’s renown was constructed by others. She traces the chatter, institutions, poets, and rivals that shaped his public image. Short scenes cover contested discoveries, university prestige, patronage, and efforts to control his memory.
Feb 25, 2026 • 59min
Anna-Luna Post, "Galileo’s Fame: Science, Credibility, and Memory in the Seventeenth Century" (U Pittsburgh Press, 2025)
Anna-Luna Post, historian at Leiden University and author of Galileo’s Fame, studies early modern science and reputation. She traces how others shaped Galileo’s renown through poets, patrons, universities, and rivalries. Short scenes explore contested discoveries, self-fashioning for patrons, institutional prestige, Dominican opposition, and how networks controlled or lost his story.
