Galileo's Muse : : Renaissance Mathematics and the Arts /

Galileo's Muse : : Renaissance Mathematics and the Arts / / Mark A. Peterson.

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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. Galileo's Muse argues that painters, poets, musicians, and architects brought abo...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK GESAMTPAKET / COMPLETE PACKAGE 2011
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Peterson, Mark A.,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2011]
©2011
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (352 p.) :; 22 line illustrations; 2 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Prologue
  • 1. Galileo, Humanist
  • 2. The Classical Legacy
  • Poetry
  • 3. The Plan of Heaven
  • 4. The Vision of God
  • Painting
  • 5. The Power of the Lines
  • 6. The Skin of the Lion
  • Music
  • 7. The Orphic Mystery
  • 8. Kepler and the Music of the Spheres
  • Architecture
  • 9. Figure and Form
  • 10 The Dimensions of Hell
  • 11. Mathematics Old and New
  • 12. Transforming Mathematics
  • 13. The Oration
  • Epilogue
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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