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. Painters, poets, musicians, and architects brought about a scientific revolution that eluded the philosopher-scientists of the day.
- ISBN13 9780674062979
- Publish Date 14 May 2014 (first published 16 November 2011)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Harvard University Press
- Format eBook
- Pages 352
- Language English
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