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

Galileo's Muse: Renaissance Mathematics and the Arts

Mark A. Peterson

336 pages first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction history science informative medium-paced
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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 painte...

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