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 about a scientific revolution that eluded the philosopher-scientists of the day, steeped as they were in a medieval cosmos and its underlying philosophy...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0674059727
ISBN13:9780674059726
Release Date:October 2011
Publisher:Harvard University Press
Length:352 Pages
Weight:1.75 lbs.
Dimensions:1.2" x 5.8" x 8.3"
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