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Galileo's Muse

Renaissance Mathematics and the Arts

Mark A. Peterson

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ISBN 9780674059726

Publication Date: 10/17/2011

352 pages

5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches

22 line illustrations; 2 halftones

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Mark A. Peterson is Professor of Physics and Mathematics on the Alumnae Foundation, Mount Holyoke College.

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Read an exchange about Galileo and the relationship between the humanities and the sciences at the New York Times’s philosophy column The Stone
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