Nick Wilding
Nick Wilding is a British historian. He became internationally known in connection with the alleged Galileo drawings which he exposed as fakes.[1][2]
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.[3][4]
External links
- Faculty Homepage of Nick Wilding
- Library Blog der Georgia State University, GSU Faculty Member Uncovers Fake Book Sold By Corrupt Library Director
References
- ↑ Seth: An Almost Perfect Forgery, 17 February 2013
- ↑ Stefano Gattei in Book Reviews on the History of Science am 10. Dezember 2012: Horst Bredekamp (ed.), Galileo's O, 4 January 2014
- ↑ Elisabetta Povoledo: At Root of Italy Library’s Plunder, a Tale of Entrenched Practices, The New York Times, 11 August 2012
- ↑ Nicholas Schmidle: “A Very Rare Book”. The mystery surrounding a copy of Galileo’s pivotal treatise, The New Yorker, 16 December 2013