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Index
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AAS. See American Astronomical Society
Abbot, George
Ackroyd, Peter
The Advancement of Learning (Bacon)
Aeneid (Virgil)
afterlife
Alae seu scalae mathematicae (Digges, T.)
The Alchemist (Jonson)
alchemy
Aldebaran (star)
alewives
Alfonso X (king of León)
algebra
allegory
All’s Well That Ends Well (Shakespeare, W.)
astrology in
medicine in
passages from
planetary movement in
Almagest (Ptolemy)
almanacs
The Ambassadors (Holbein the Younger)
American Astronomical Society (AAS)
Amleth (fictional prince)
anamorphosis
An Anatomy of the World (Donne)
Andrews, John
Anger, Jane
animistic worldview
anti-Stratfordians. See also authorship question
Antony and Cleopatra (Shakespeare, W.)
book of nature in
first scene of
magic in
perspectives in
soothsayer’s line from
stars in
apothecaries
Aquilecchia, Giovanni
Archer, Jayne
Aristarchus of Samos
Aristotle
influence of
arithmetic
armillary spheres
Artis analyticae praxis (Harriot)
As You Like It (Shakespeare, W.)
atomism in
clocks and timekeeping in
influences on
school in
Asimov, Isaac
The Assayer (Galileo)
Astraea (star maiden)
astrolabes
astrology
decline of
Astronomia Nova (Kepler)
Astronomiae Instauratae Progymnasmata (Brahe)
astronomical software
astronomy. See also specific individuals
education in
references to
research in
atheism
atomism and
history of
Atlas (Greek deity)
Atlas of the Principal Cities of the World
atomism
atheism and
Lucretius and
authorship question
automata
Bacon, Francis
The Advancement of Learning
The Great Instauration
life and career of
The New Atlantis
Baer, Nicholai Reymers (Ursus)
Baines, Richard
Baker, Brian
Baker, Humphrey
Bakewell, Sarah
Ball, Philip
ballad sheets
barbers
Bate, Jonathan
on Cymbeline
on physicians
on prostitution
on religion
on villains
BBC
bear stage direction, in The Winter’s Tale
Beard, Thomas
Becket, Thomas
The Belief in a Just World: A Fundamental Delusion (Lerner)
Bell, Millicent
Belleforest, François de
Bertram, Benjamin
Bethlehem Hospital
Bevington, David
Bible. See also specific books
references to
scenes and stories from
versions of
big bang (cosmology)
bile. See black bile; yellow bile
bishop of Paris
Bishop’s Bible
black bile
Blackfriars Theatre
Blagrave, John
blood
bloodletting
Bloom, Harold
Blount, Edward
Blythe House
Boccaccio, Giovanni
Bodin, Jean
Book of Common Prayer
Book of Joshua
“book of nature”
books and publishing
Boorstin, Daniel
Borough, William
Boswell, William
Bourne, William
Boyle, Robert
Bradley, A. C.
Brahe, Tycho. See also Tychonic system; Tycho’s star
Astronomiae Instauratae Progymnasmata
comet of 1577 and
comet of 1585 and
De Nova Stella
death of
deformity of
engraving of
Epistolae
on Hven island
influence of
Kepler and
life and career of
relatives of
solar system model
Braunmuller, A. R.
breeched
A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia (Harriot)
Brigden, Susan
Briggs, Henry
Brown, Agnes
Brown, Douglas
Bruno, Giordano
Candelaio
La cena de le ceneri
De innumerabilibus, immenso, et infi gurabili
De triplici minimo
on infinite space
On the Infinite Universe and Worlds
life and career of
at Oxford
possible connection to Shakespeare
religion and
statue of
Bryson, Bill
Buckley, George
Burbage, Richard
Burns, William
Butler, Martin
Byard, Margaret
Caesar, Julius, murder of
Calvin, John
Cambridge University
Camden, William
Campbell, Gordon
Candelaio (Bruno)
cannabis
Capella (star)
Cardano, Girolamo
Cartwright, John
Cary, Elizabeth
Case, John
Cassini, Giovanni
Cassiopeia
The Castle of Knowledge (Recorde)
Catholicism
CBC Radio’s Ideas
Cecil, William
celestial globe
La cena de le ceneri (Bruno)
Chancellor, Richard
Chandos portrait
Chapman, Allan
Charles I (king of England)
Chaucer, Geoffrey
Cheapside
Chelmsford witches
choler
Cholmeley, Richard
Christian IV (king of Denmark)
Christianized Aristotelianism
Christianson, John Robert
Chronicles (Holinshed)
Church of England
Cicero
Clarke, Arthur C.
class prejudice
Clavius, Christopher
Clement VII (pope)
clocks and timekeeping
“clockwork universe.” See mechanical philosophy
Cohen, I. Bernard
Collins, Francis
comedies. See also individual plays
The Comedy of Errors (Shakespeare, W.)
comets
of 1577
of 1580
of 1582 and 1607
of 1585
Halley’s Comet
Commentariolus (Copernicus)
Commentary (Reinhold)
compass
Conceptions of Cosmos (Kragh)
Condell, Henry
Configurations
conjunction
conspiracy theories
Copernican system
debate on
Dee on
Digges, T., and
interest in
Johnson, F., on
Ptolemaic system compared to
Recorde and
Usher on
Copernicus, Nicolaus
Commentariolus
De revolutionibus
life and career of
Coriolanus (Shakespeare, W.)
Cormack, Lesley
corporal punishment
cosmic imagination
cosmic machine
cosmic order
Cosmographica (Silvestris)
cosmology. See also Copernican system; Ptolemaic system; universe; individual astronomers
history of
Crakanthorpe, Richard
creationists
cross-staff
Culpeper, Arthur
Culpeper, Nicholas
cultural relativism
Cymbeline (Shakespeare, W.)
Bate on
ghosts in
Greenblatt on
influences on
Jupiter and
magic in
Maisano on
numbers in
Pitcher on
plot of
social and cosmic order in
symbols in
Usher on
Cynthia (goddess)
Daemonologie (James I)
Danielson, Dennis
Dante Alighieri
Davies, John
Dawson, Anthony
De animi immortalitate (Cardano)
De humani corporis fabrica (Vesalius)
De innumerabilibus, immenso, et infi gurabili (Bruno)
De magnete (Gilbert)
De Nova Stella (Brahe)
De revolutionibus (Copernicus)
influence of
Osiander’s preface to
translations of
De triplici minimo (Bruno)
de Viau, Théophile
Dear, Peter
Debus, Allen
Decameron (Boccaccio)
Dee, John
on Copernican system
crystal of
Digges, T., and
influence of
life and career of
magic and
The Tempest and
writings of
deferent circle
Dekker, Thomas
Democritus
Denmark
Dennett, Daniel
Descartes, René
Devereux, Robert
DeWitt, Richard
Diagoras of Melos
Digges, Leonard (father of Thomas Digges)
A Prognostication of Right Good Effect
Digges, Leonard (son of Thomas Digges)
Digges, Thomas
Alae seu scalae mathematicae
connection to Shakespeare
Copernican system and
death of
Dee and
on infinite universe
Johnson, F., and
“Letter sent by a gentleman” and
life and career of
A Prognostication Everlasting
solar system diagram of
Stratioticos
Digges family
Discourses and Mathematical Demonstrations Relating to Two New Sciences (Galileo)
The Discovery of Witchcraft (Scot)
diseases. See also medicine; plague
Divina Commedia (Dante)
divine providence
Doctor Faustus (Marlowe)
frontispiece of
influence of
magic in
planetary movement in
plot of
title character in
University of Wittenberg in
Donne, John
doubt
Drebbel, Cornelis
Droeshout, Martin
Dunn, Richard
Eagleton, Terry
Earth
as center of universe
curvature of
four elements of
magnetism and
meteors as vapors exhaled by
motion of
planets, distance from
position of
rotation of
as stationary
sun, distance from
Easter
eccentric circles
edge of the world debate
education. See also schools; specific institutions
Edward the Second (Marlowe)
Edward VI (king of England)
Edwards, Kathryn
elements
fifth
four
Elements (Euclid)
Elizabeth (queen of England)
advisors to
appearance of
Astraea comparison to
engraving of
interests of
physician to
reign of
The Elizabethan Review
The Elizabethan World Picture (Tillyard)
Elsinore castle
Elton, William
empiricism
empirics
empty space problem
England
material culture of
population growth in
English compared to Latin
ephemeris tables
Epicureanism
epicycles
Epistolae (Brahe)
Epitome of Copernican Astronomy (Kepler)
equant points
equinoxes
Essays (Montaigne)
Essex, Earl of
Euclid
Evelyn, John
experimental method
familiar (witchcraft)
famine
fashion trends
Faustus, Johannes
Feinberg, Matthew
Feingold, Mordechai
Ferris, Timothy
fideism
Field, John
Field, Richard
Findlen, Paula
firmament
First Anniversary (Donne)
First Folio (Shakespeare, W.)
engraving of Shakespeare in
frontispiece of
memorialized (London monument)
preface to
The First Three Minutes (Weinberg)
Fletcher, John
Florio, John
Flude, Kevin
food riots
Fowler, Alastair
Frankenstein (Shelley)
Frederick II (king of Denmark)
Friedrich, Hugo
Furness, Horace Howard
Galen of Pergamon
Galilean moons. See Moons of Jupiter
Galilei, Vincenzo
Galileo
The Assayer
birth of
Discourses and Mathematical Demonstrations Relating to Two New Sciences
ideas of
influence of
Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina
life and career of
moon observations
observations of
The Starry Messenger
Gamba, Marina
Gatti,
Hilary
Gaveston, Piers
Gellibrand, Henry
geocentric theory. See also Ptolemaic system
geoheliocentric theory
geometry
George (saint)
ghosts
in Cymbeline
in Hamlet
Gilbert, William
Gingerich, Owen
Globe Theatre
Godless Shakespeare (Mallin)
gods, associated with planets
Gosselin, Jean
grain hoarding
grammar schools
gravity
Grayling, A. C.
Great Chain of Being
Great Fire of London (1666)
The Great Instauration (Bacon)
Greaves, John
Greenblatt, Stephen
on Bruno influence
on Cymbeline
on King Lear and skepticism
on Lucretius and atomism
on Marlowe
on Montaigne’s Essays
on the “moral order”
on religion
on Shakespeare’s female characters
on Shakespeare’s personal life
on Shakespeare’s world-view
The Swerve
Will in the World
Greene, Robert
Gresham, Thomas
Gresham College
Gribbin, John
The Grounde of the Artes (Recorde)
Guildhall, London
Gunpowder Plot (1605)
Halio, Jay
Hall, John
Hall, Marie Boas
Halley, Edmond
Halley’s Comet
Hamlet (Shakespeare, W.)
act 3, scene 4 of
as allegory
astrology in
characters in
cost of
date of
Denmark as setting for
firmament in
ghost in
infinite space in
King Lear versus
love poem in
mental illness in
murder in
names in
numbers in
opening scene of
popularity of
second act of
stars in
Usher on
Hamlet’s Universe (Usher)
Harkness, Deborah
Harriot, Thomas
Artis analyticae praxis
A Briefe and True Report
influence of
life and career of
Harry Potter series
Harsnett, Samuel
Harvard Magazine
Harvard Observatory
Harvard University
Harvey, William
Hathaway, Anne
Hawking, Stephen
Hazlitt, William
heat death of the universe
heavenly spheres. See also spheres
“the heavens” (stage effect)
Hecht, Jennifer Michael
heliocentric theory. See also Copernican system
Heminges, John
Heninger, S. K.
Henri (king of France)
Henry (prince of England)
Henry, John
Henry IV, Part 1 (Shakespeare, W.)
astrology in
planetary motion in
spleen in
stars in
Henry IV, Part 2 (Shakespeare, W.)
Henry V (Shakespeare, W.)
Henry VI, Part 1 (Shakespeare, W.)
Henry VI, Part 3 (Shakespeare, W.)
Henry VIII (king of England)
herbs and plants, medicinal
Hermeticism