Galileo's muse : Renaissance mathematics and the arts / / Mark A. Peterson.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Peterson, Mark A., 1946-
• TeilnehmendeR: ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Language: English
• Physical Description: vi, 336 p. :; ill.

Table of Contents

• Galileo, humanist
• The classical legacy
• Poetry
• The plan of heaven
• The vision of God
• Painting
• The power of the lines
• The skin of the lion
• Music
• The Orphic mystery
• Kepler and the music of the spheres
• Architecture
• Figure and form
• The dimensions of hell
• Mathematics old and new
• Transforming mathematics
• The oration.