The Heritage of Giotto's Geometry: Art and Science on the Eve of Scientific Revolution

By Samuel Y. Edgerton Jr.

Book Overview

Winner of the 1992 Helen and Howard R. Marraro Prize from the American Historical Association "Edgerton's interdisciplinary study is a bold attempt to show how the perception of the world, as slowly refined by the Renaissance artists, provided the impetus behind the scientific revolution. . . . An ambitious and largely persuasive book." --Nature "Edgerton's book is learned and richly illustrated with paintings and drawings from the Middle Ages, the Italian Renaissance, and contemporaneous Chinese dynasties. . . . [His] argument is intricate and flawless." --American Historical Review

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801481988
• ISBN13: 9780801481987
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 2.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.0" x 1.0" x 8.5"