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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. Galileo's Muse argues that painters, poets, musicians, and architects brought about a scientific revolution that eluded the philosopher-scientists of the day, steeped as they were in a medieval cosmos and its underlying philosophy.According to Peterson, the recovery of classical science owes much to the Renaissance artists who first turned to Greek sources for inspiration and instruction. Chapters devoted to their insights into mathematics, ranging from perspective in painting to tuning in music, are interspersed with chapters about Galileo's own life and work. Himself an artist turned scientist and an avid student of Hellenistic culture, Galileo pulled together the many threads of his artistic and classical education in designing unprecedented experiments to unlock the secrets of nature.In the last chapter, Peterson draws our attention to the Oratio de Mathematicae laudibus of 1627, delivered by one of Galileo's students. This document, Peterson argues, was penned in part by Galileo himself, as an expression of his understanding of the universality of mathematics in art and nature. It is ";entirely Galilean in so many details that even if it is derivative, it must represent his thought,"; Peterson writes. An intellectual adventure, Galileo's Muse offers surprising ideas that will capture the imagination of anyone-scientist, mathematician, history buff, lover of literature, or artist-who cares about the humanistic roots of modern science.

Arts, Renaissance --- Mathematics --- Science and the arts --- Arts and science --- Arts --- Math --- Science --- History. --- Galilei, Galileo, --- Galileo Galilei --- Galilée --- History --- Galilei, Galileo

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Astronomy, Renaissance --- Science --- History --- Philosophy --- Copernicus, Nicolaus, --- Galilei, Galileo, --- Kepler, Johannes, --- Natural science --- Science of science --- Sciences --- Renaissance astronomy --- Copernicus, Nicolaus --- Galilei, Galileo --- Kepler, Johannes --- Kepler, Jean --- Kepler, Johann --- Keppler, Giovanni --- Galileo Galilei --- Galilée --- Copernic, Nicolas --- Kopernik, Mikołaj --- Natural sciences

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Astronomy --- Printing --- Printing, Practical --- Typography --- Graphic arts --- History --- Galilei, Galileo, --- Jupiter (Planet) --- Satellites

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A contemporary of Giordano Bruno and Galileo, Tommaso Campanella (1568-1639) was a controversial philosopher, theologian, astrologer, and poet who was persecuted during the Inquisition and spent much of his adult life imprisoned because of his heterodox views. He is best known today for two works: The City of the Sun, a dialogue inspired by Plato's Republic, in which he prophesies a vision of a unified, peaceful world governed by a theocratic monarchy; and his well-meaning Defense of Galileo, which may have done Galileo more harm than good because of Campanella's previous conviction for heresy. But Campanella's philosophical poems are where his most forceful and undiluted ideas reside. His poetry is where his faith in observable and experimental sciences, his astrological and occult wisdom, his ideas about deism, his anti-Aristotelianism, and his calls for religious and secular reform most put him at odds with both civil and church authorities. For this volume, Sherry Roush has selected Campanella's best and most idiosyncratic poems, which are masterpieces of sixteenth-century Italian lyrics, displaying a questing mind of great, if unorthodox, brilliance, and showing Campanella's passionate belief in the intrinsic harmony between the sacred and secular.

Poetry, Medieval. --- European poetry --- Medieval poetry --- Campanella, Tommaso, --- Campanella, Giovanni Domenico, --- Campanella, T. --- Campanella, Thomas, --- Campanella, Tomasso, --- Campanella, Tomasz, --- Kampanella, Tommazo, --- Italian literature --- philosophy, poetry, poetics, literature, theology, religion, heresy, inquisition, astrology, astronomy, universe, persecution, church, imprisonment, city of the sun, plato, republic, utopia, politics, monarchy, peace, defense galileo, faith, science, occultism, supernatural, deism, reform, aristotelianism, italy, lyric, nonfiction, sacred, holy, divine. --- Campanella, Tommaso