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Galileo's Muse

Renaissance Mathematics and the Arts

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$41.00 • £35.95 • €37.95

ISBN 9780674059726

Publication Date: 10/17/2011

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352 pages

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

22 line illustrations; 2 halftones

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  • Prologue
    • 1. Galileo, Humanist
    • 2. The Classical Legacy
  • Poetry
    • 3. The Plan of Heaven
    • 4. The Vision of God
  • Painting
    • 5. The Power of the Lines
    • 6. The Skin of the Lion
  • Music
    • 7. The Orphic Mystery
    • 8. Kepler and the Music of the Spheres
  • 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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