TY  - BOOK
AU  - Peterson,Mark A.
TI  - Galileo's Muse: Renaissance Mathematics and the Arts
SN  - 9780674062979
AV  - QB36 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Galilei, Galileo,-1564-1642
KW  - Arts, Renaissance-Italy
KW  - Mathematics-Italy-History
KW  - Science and the arts-Italy-History
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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