Galileo's observations by means of the telescope as beginning of physics of detectors / Jirí Marek.
Note galileane:
Isis CB, 99/1660 "Discusses the development of the "physics of invisible information" as opposed to the "physics of the senses". Discusses parallels between the development of the two types of physics"
Atti della Fondazione Giorgio Ronchi (sotto gli auspici dell'Istituto nazionale di ottica di Arcetri) A. 27 (1972), p. 901-908