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Galileo's Muse : Renaissance Mathematics and the Arts.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (347 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674062979
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Galileo's MuseLOC classification:
  • QB36
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Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Prologue -- Chapter 1. Galileo, Humanist -- Chapter 2. The Classical Legacy -- Poetry -- Chapter 3. The Plan of Heaven -- Chapter 4. The Vision of God -- Painting -- Chapter 5. The Power of the Lines -- Chapter 6. The Skin of the Lion -- Music -- Chapter 7. The Orphic Mystery -- Chapter 8. Kepler and the Music of the Spheres -- Architecture -- Chapter 9. Figure and Form -- Chapter 10. The Dimensions of Hell -- Chapter 11. Mathematics Old and New -- Chapter 12. Transforming Mathematics -- Chapter 13. The Oration -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Summary: Mark Peterson makes an extraordinary claim in this fascinating book focused around the life and thought of Galileo: it was the mathematics of Renaissance arts, not Renaissance sciences, that became modern science. Painters, poets, musicians, and architects brought about a scientific revolution that eluded the philosopher-scientists of the day.
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Prologue -- Chapter 1. Galileo, Humanist -- Chapter 2. The Classical Legacy -- Poetry -- Chapter 3. The Plan of Heaven -- Chapter 4. The Vision of God -- Painting -- Chapter 5. The Power of the Lines -- Chapter 6. The Skin of the Lion -- Music -- Chapter 7. The Orphic Mystery -- Chapter 8. Kepler and the Music of the Spheres -- Architecture -- Chapter 9. Figure and Form -- Chapter 10. The Dimensions of Hell -- Chapter 11. Mathematics Old and New -- Chapter 12. Transforming Mathematics -- Chapter 13. The Oration -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

Mark Peterson makes an extraordinary claim in this fascinating book focused around the life and thought of Galileo: it was the mathematics of Renaissance arts, not Renaissance sciences, that became modern science. Painters, poets, musicians, and architects brought about a scientific revolution that eluded the philosopher-scientists of the day.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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