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The Science of Shakespeare

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by Dan Falk


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  Weinberg, Steven. The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe. New York: Basic Books, 1977. Citations are to the 1988 updated edition.

  Westfall, Richard S. “The Scientific Revolution Reasserted.” In Rethinking the Scientific Revolution, edited by Margaret J. Osler. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.

  Williams, Neville. “The Tudors.” In The Lives of the Kings and Queens of England, edited by Antonia Fraser. London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson, 1993.

  Wilson, John Dover. The Essential Shakespeare. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1964.

  Index

  The index that appeared in the print version of this title does not match the pages in your e-book. Please use the search function on your e-reading device to search for terms of interest. For your reference, the terms that appear in the print index are listed below.

  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.r />
  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

 

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