Galileo's muse : Renaissance mathematics and the arts /

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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Peterson, Mark A., 1946-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2011.
Temas:
Galilei, Galileo, > 1564-1642.
Galilei, Galileo, > 1564-1642
Arts, Renaissance > Italy.
Mathematics > Italy > History.
Science and the arts > Italy > History.
Arts de la Renaissance > Italie.
Mathématiques > Italie > Histoire.
Sciences et arts > Italie > Histoire.
ART > History > Renaissance.
HISTORY > Renaissance.
Arts, Renaissance
Mathematics
Science and the arts
Italy
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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