The Art of Renaissance Science:

Galileo and Perspective

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Galileo
  • Part I: The Early Years
  • Part II: Heavenly Bodies
  • Part III: The Inquisition

• Renaissance Art and Mathematical Perspective
  • Part I: Early Attempts to Depict the Real World in Art
  • Part II: Vesalius and the Study of the Human Anatomy
  • Part III: Masters of the Human Figure

• From Human Architecture to Architectural Structure
  • Part I: Brunelleschi and the Origin of Linear Perspective
  • Part II: Applications of the Method of Perspective in Renaissance Art
  • Part III: The Imporance of Mathematics to Art in the Renaissance
  • Part IV: Examples from the Work of Boromini and Leonardo da Vinci
  • Part V: The School of Athens

• Galileo and the Mathematics of Motion
  • Part I: The Inclined Plane Experiments
  • Part II: Galileo's Analysis of Parabolic Motion

• Conclusion
  • Part I: The Evolving View of Scientific Knowledge
  • Part II: The Interaction of Artists and Scientists in the Renaissance
  • Ap pendix: WWW Resources of Related Interest