Search Results - "Renaissance science"

Measuring shadows : Kepler's optics of invisibility by Chen-Morris, Raz

Table of Contents: “…The new optical narrative : light, camera obscura, and the astronomer's wings -- "Seeing with my own eyes" : introducing the new foundations of scientific knowledge -- The content of Kepler's visual language : abstraction, representation, and recognition -- "Non tanquam pictor, sed tanquam mathematicus" : Kepler's pictures and the art of painting -- Reading the book of nature : allegories, emblems, and geometrical diagrams -- Nothing and the ends of Renaissance science.…”
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A Companion to Cosimo I de' Medici

Table of Contents: “…Gáldy -- 14 Problems with Cosimo I 's Artistic Patronage: Baccio Bandinelli and the Neptune Fountain in Piazza della Signoria -- Henk Th. van Veen -- 15 Cosimo I de' Medici and the Renaissance Sciences: "To Measure and to See" -- Sheila Barker -- 16 Cosimo I de' Medici: Antagonism and Praise -- Carmen Menchini -- 17 Cosimo I de' Medici and Modern Historiography -- Brendan Dooley -- Index of Names.…”
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Landmarks in the history of science : great scientific discoveries from a global-historical perspective by Evangelidis, Basil

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Galileo's muse : Renaissance mathematics and the arts by Peterson, Mark A., 1946-

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