The science of Shakespeare : a new look at the playwright's universe /
William Shakespeare lived at a remarkable time, a period we now recognize as the first phase of the Scientific Revolution. New ideas were transforming Western thought, the medieval was giving way to the modern, and the work of a few key figures hinted at the brave new world to come. The methodical a...
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New York :
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press,
[2014]
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- "Arise, fair sun-- " : a brief history of cosmology
- "He that is giddy thinks the world turns round-- " : Nicolaus Copernicus, the reluctant reformer
- "This majestical roof fretted with golden fire-- " : Tycho Brahe and Thomas Digges
- "These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights-- " : the shadow of Copernicus and the dawn of science
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- sorrow's eye, glazed with blinding tears-- " : the rise of English science and the question of the Tudor telescope
- "Who is it that can tell me who I am?" : a brief history of William Shakespeare
- "More things in heaven and earth-- " : the science of Hamlet
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- a hawk from a handsaw" : reading Shakespeare, and reading into Shakespeare
- "Does the world go round?" : Shakespeare and Galileo
- "Treachers by spherical predominance-- " : the allure of astrology
- "Fair is foul, and foul is fair-- " : magic in the age of Shakespeare
- "A body yet distempered-- " : Shakespeare and medicine
- "Drawn with a team of little atomi-- " : living in the material world
- "As flies to wanton boys-- " : the disappearing gods
- "They say miracles are past-- ".