In Galileo’s Muse, Mark A. Peterson navigates the multiple streams that flowed together to form the great mathematician’s genius
GALILEO was professor of mathematics and physics at the University of Padua, Italy, from the end of the 16th century, a time when ancient learning was being recovered.
In Galileo’s Muse, Mark A. Peterson is anxious to show how much the great man owed to the legacy of Greek science, Roman technology, and the arts. Providing a lively overview of Renaissance poetry, painting, music, architecture and mathematics, he argues that these subjects must have been a source of inspiration for Galileo.…
