Galileo's muse : Renaissance mathematics and the arts / Mark A. Peterson.
Pubblicazione:
Cambridge (Massachusetts) : Harvard university press, 2011.
Descrizione fisica:
VI, 336 p. : ill. ; 22 cm
Contiene:
Indice: Prologue. 1. Galileo, humanist 2. The classical legacy. Pt. 1. Poetry: 3. The plan of Heaven 4. The vision of God. Pt. 2. Painting: 5. The power of the lines 6. The skin of the lion. Pt. 3. Music: 7. The Orphic mistery 8. Kepler and the music of the spheres. Pt. 4. Architecture: 9. Figure and form 10. The dimensions of Hell 11. Mathematics old and new 12. Transforming mathematics 13. The oration. Epilogue. Notes. Acknowledgments. Index
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