Galileo's Muse: Renaissance Mathematics and the Arts

by Mark A. Peterson

Book Overview

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"