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Les différents chapitres de cet ouvrage s'intéressent à « l'art-science », c'est-à-dire au mélange de sciences et d'arts dans la peinture, l'architecture, la sculpture, la musique ou la poésie à la Renaissance. Ils expliquent les investigations que les artistes vont entreprendre pour rendre compte exactement du réel et pour imiter parfaitement la nature. Les peintures de Léonard de Vinci sont instruites par les pratiques de la dissection et les connaissances anatomiques. Les peintres et les architectes inventent des méthodes de représentation en perspective. Les anamorphoses, au contraire, leur servent à déformer curieusement le réel. Dans son traité de sculpture, Alberti donne un tableau des mesures humaines et propose un appareil qui repère chaque point de la statue par des coordonnées. Vincenzo Galilei entreprend des expériences sur les cordes de son luth, qui inaugurent une nouvelle physique. Johannes Kepler établit un lien entre consonances et polygones constructibles à la règle et au compas. Jacques Peletier du Mans, invente la « poésie scientifique ». Tandis que les ouvrages de botanique, de zoologie, de géométrie ou de fortification contiennent des images aussi fidèles que possible à la réalité, mais aussi des images d'êtres mythiques.

Art --- Pure sciences. Natural sciences (general) --- anno 1400-1499 --- anno 1500-1599 --- Sciences et arts --- Renaissance

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Nombres --- Histoire. --- Number theory --- History --- Nombres - Histoire. --- Nombre, idee de --- Histoire

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Mathematics --- Mathématiques --- History --- Histoire --- Mathematiques --- Mathématiques --- Histoire.

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The aim of this book is to analyse historical problems related to the use of mathematics in physics as well as to the use of physics in mathematics and to investigate Mathematical Physics as precisely the new discipline which is concerned with this dialectical link itself. So the main question is: When and why did the tension between mathematics and physics, explicitly practised at least since Galileo, evolve into such a new scientific theory?   The authors explain the various ways in which this science allowed an advanced mathematical modelling in physics on the one hand, and the invention of new mathematical ideas on the other hand. Of course this problem is related to the links between institutions, universities, schools for engineers, and industries, and so it has social implications as well.   The link by which physical ideas had influenced the world of mathematics was not new in the 19th century, but it came to a kind of maturity at that time. Recently, much historical research has been done into mathematics and physics and their relation in this period. The purpose of the Symposium and this book is to gather and re-evaluate the current thinking on this subject. It brings together contributions from leading experts in the field, and gives much-needed insight in the subject of mathematical physics from a historical point of view.

Theory of knowledge --- Mathematics --- History of physics --- Mathematical physics --- Physics --- kennisleer --- wiskunde --- fysica --- anno 1800-1899