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

Galileo's Muse: Renaissance Mathematics and the Arts



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Galileo's Muse: Renaissance Mathematics and the Arts Mark Austin Peterson ebook
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Page: 352
ISBN: 9780674059726

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. According to Peterson, the recovery of classical science owes much to the Renaissance artists who first turned to Greek sources for inspiration and instruction. Chapters devoted to their insights into mathematics, ...

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