Related Books

Galileo's Muse
Language: en
Pages: 347
Authors: Mark A. Peterson
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-10-17 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

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,
What Galileo Saw
Language: en
Pages: 331
Authors: Lawrence Lipking
Categories: Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-12-18 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century has often been called a decisive turning point in human history. It represents, for good or ill, the birth
The Refracted Muse
Language: en
Pages: 325
Authors: Enrique García Santo-Tomás
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-08-08 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Galileo never set foot on the Iberian Peninsula, yet, as Enrique García Santo-Tomás unfolds in The Refracted Muse, the news of his work with telescopes brough
Galileo's Reading
Language: en
Pages: 257
Authors: Crystal Hall
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-12-12 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

This book argues the importance of Galileo's reading and engagement with a range of writers to the shaping of early modern philosophy.
Galileo
Language: en
Pages: 539
Authors: J. L. Heilbron
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-07-26 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Heilbron takes in the landscape of culture, learning, religion, science, theology, and politics of late Renaissance Italy to produce a richer and more rounded v