Galileo's muse : Renaissance mathematics and the arts / Mark A. Peterson.

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2011.

vi, 336 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Galileo, humanist -- The classical legacy -- Poetry -- The plan of heaven -- The vision of God -- Painting -- The power of the lines -- The skin of the lion -- Music -- The Orphic mystery -- Kepler and the music of the spheres -- Architecture -- Figure and form -- The dimensions of hell -- Mathematics old and new -- Transforming mathematics -- The oration.