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  Hill, Nicolas

  Hill, Thomas

  Hippocrates

  history plays

  Hobbes, Thomas

  Holbein the Younger, Hans

  Holinshed, Raphael

  Holy Trinity Church

  Holyday, Barten

  Hood, Thomas

  Hooke, Robert

  Horace

  Hotson, Leslie

  human corpse dissection

  human-centered cosmos. See also universe

  humors, four

  Hurricane Katrina

  Hutchinson, Roger

  Hven island

  Hyman, Gavin

  inertia

  infinite space

  Bruno on

  in Hamlet

  infinite universe

  Digges, T., on

  Inquisition

  intelligent design

  International Year of Astronomy (2009)

  It Started with Copernicus (Margolis)

  Italy

  Jacob, James

  Jaggard, William

  James I (king of England)

  Daemonologie

  interests of

  James VI (king of Scotland). See James I

  Jamestown, Virginia

  Jardine, Boris

  Jenkins, Harold

  Jensen, Freyja Cox

  Jesus Christ

  jet-d’eau

  The Jewel House (Harkness)

  Jews and conversos

  The Jew of Malta (Marlowe)

  Johnson, Francis

  on Copernican system

  Digges, T., and

  on Donne

  on education

  on Gresham College

  on Harriot’s influence

  Johnson, Samuel

  Jones, Nigel

  Jones, Norman

  Jonson, Ben

  The Alchemist

  influence of

  life and career of

  The Magnetic Lady

  masques by

  quote by

  Volpone

  Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada

  Julius Caesar (Shakespeare, W.)

  astrology in

  cost of

  the heavens in

  magic in

  numbers in

  pole star in

  social and cosmic order in

  sun’s movement in

  Jupiter

  conjunction of Saturn and

  Cymbeline and

  Galileo’s observations of

  moons of

  references to

  just-world theory

  Juvenal

  Kelley, Edward

  Kepler, Johannes

  Astronomia Nova

  Brahe and

  Epitome of Copernican Astronomy

  mother of

  Mysterium Cosmographicum

  Somnium

  The Sure Fundamentals of Astrology

  theory of

  work of

  Kepler’s star

  Kermode, Frank

  King James Bible

  King John (Shakespeare, W.)

  King Lear (Shakespeare, W.)

  astrology in

  authorship question and

  famine in

  Hamlet versus

  influences on

  just-world theory and

  McAlindon on

  medicine in

  popularity of

  King Lear and the Gods (Elton)

  King’s Men (company)

  Know the Stars (Rey)

  Kocher, Paul

  Kragh, Helge

  Krauss, Lawrence

  Kyd, Thomas

  Lanyer, Aemilia

  Latin

  English compared to

  schooling and

  vernacular compared to

  Lee, Edmund

  Leicester, Earl of

  Lerner, Melvin

  “Letter sent by a gentleman” (I.G.D.V.)

  Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina (Galileo)

  Leucippus

  Levine, George

  Levy, David

  librations of moon

  life expectancy

  literacy

  rise in

  scientific

  Literature and Science: Social Impact and Interaction (Cartwright and Baker)

  liver

  Lives (Plutarch)

  lodestones

  The Lodger (Nicholl)

  London

  appearance of

  as city

  Great Fire of

  Guildhall in

  landmarks in

  museums of

  population of

  and science

  Shakespeare, W., in

  Visscher’s panorama of

  London Bridge

  London Times

  Lord Strange’s Men

  Louis XIV (king of France)

  lovers, in Romeo and Juliet

  Love’s Labour’s Lost (Shakespeare, W.)

  Lower, William

  Lucretius

  atomism and

  On the Nature of Things

  lunar eclipse

  Luther, Martin

  Macbeth (Shakespeare, W.)

  astrology in

  just-world theory and

  mental illness in

  murder in

  numbers in

  perspective in

  plot of

  witchcraft in

  macrocosm, microcosm and

  madness. See mental illness

  Maestlin, Michael

  magic

  The Magnetic Lady (Jonson)

  magnetism

  Maisano, Scott

  on Brahe’s influence

  on clocks and timekeeping

  on Galileo’s influence

  on Henry (prince of England)

  on science fiction

  on Usher’s Hamlet theory

  Mallin, Eric

  Mansell, John

  maps

  Marchitello, Howard

  Margolis, Howard

  Marlowe, Christopher. See also Doctor Faustus

  connections with Shakespeare

  Edward the Second

  Greenblatt on

  The Jew of Malta

  life and career of

  Tamburlaine the Great

  Mars

  material culture

  materialism (philosophy). See also atomism; Lucretius

  mathematics

  McAlindon, Thomas

  on astrology

  on cosmic imagination

  on King Lear

  Shakespeare’s Tragic Cosmos

  McGinn, Colin

  McLean, Antonia

  Meadows, A. J.

  Measure for Measure (Shakespeare, W.)

  mechanical creatures

  mechanical force

  mechanical philosophy. See also atomism

  Medici, Cosimo II de’

  medicine

  Médicis, Marie de

  mental illness

  Mercator, Gerard

  The Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare, W.)

  algebra in

  astronomical references in

  Saturn in

  Stars’ movement in

  Mercury (journal)

  Mercury (planet)

  The Merry Wives of Windsor (Shakespeare, W.)

  meteors

  microcosm and macrocosm

  A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare, W.)

  almanacs in

  numbers in

  stars’ spheres in

  midwives

  The Miller’s Tale (Chaucer)

  Milton, John

  Montaigne, Michel de

  Essays

  life and career of

  “On the Cannibals”

  religion and

  and Shakespeare

  moon

  depictions of

  influence of

  librations of

&n
bsp; movement and phases of

  symbolism of

  Moons of Jupiter

  morality. See just-world theory

  Mortlake, England

  Most Worthy Discourses (Palissy)

  Mountjoy, Christopher

  Much Ado about Nothing (Shakespeare, W.)

  murder

  of Caesar

  in Hamlet

  in Macbeth

  in Othello

  music of the spheres

  Mysterium Cosmographicum (Kepler)

  mystery plays

  natural philosophy

  navigation

  Neill, Michael

  new philosophy

  new star (1572). See also supernova; Tycho’s star

  New Word exploration

  New York Times

  “A New Reading of Shakespeare’s Hamlet” (Usher)

  Newbolt, Henry

  The New Atlantis (Bacon)

  Newton, Isaac

  on gravity

  work of

  Nicholas of Cusa

  Nicholl, Charles

  Nicholson, Marjorie Hope

  Norman, Robert

  North, Thomas

  north star. See pole star

  nothingness

  Novara

  numbers (in the Shakespeare canon)

  Nuovo cielo, nuova terra (Sacerdoti)

  Of the Progress of the Soule (Donne)

  Old Operating Theatre Museum and Herb Garret (London)

  Olsen, Kirstin

  on medicine

  Olson, Donald

  “On the Cannibals” (Montaigne)

  On the Infinite Universe and Worlds (Bruno)

  On the Nature of Things (Lucretius)

  Orchard, Thomas

  The Orchestra (Davies)

  Oresme, Nicole

  Orgel, Stephen

  Orion

  Orwin, Thomas

  Osiander, Andreas

  Othello (Shakespeare, W.)

  just-world theory and

  moon’s influence in

  murder in

  storm in

  Varorium edition of

  Ovid

  Oxford University

  Oxfordian

  Oxfordians. See anti-Stratfordians

  paganism

  Palissy, Bernard

  Palmer, Ada

  Panek, Richard

  pantheism

  Paracelsus

  Paradise Lost (Milton)

  parallax

  Pascal, Blaise

  The Pathway to Knowledge (Recorde)

  Paul III (pope)

  Payne-Gaposchkin, Celia

  pendulum

  Percy, Charles

  Percy, Henry

  Pericles (Shakespeare, W., and Wilkins)

  Perkins, William

  perpetual motion machine

  personality

  perspective glasses

  perspectives (in geometry and painting)

  perspicillum

  philosophy

  natural

  new

  phlegm

  physicians

  Pickering, William

  Pitcher, John

  on Galileo’s influence

  on Usher’s Hamlet theory

  Pius V (pope)

  plague

  planets. See also specific planets

  brightness of

  composition of

  distance from Earth

  gods associated with

  movement of

  near ecliptic

  orbits of

  positions of

  retrograde motion of

  souls of

  as wandering stars

  Plato

  Plutarch

  Plymouth colony

  Polaris

  pole star

  polymaths

  Poor Laws

  Pope, Maurice

  Popper, Karl

  population

  predestination

  Primaudaye, Pierre de la

  primum mobile (that which moves first)

  Principe, Lawrence

  printing press

  A Prognostication Everlasting (Digges, T.)

  A Prognostication of Right Good Effect (Digges, L.)

  prostitution

  Protestant Reformation

  Protestantism

  Psalm 19

  Ptolemaic system

  armillary sphere of

  Copernican system compared to

  demise of

  Shapiro on

  support for

  Ptolemy, Claudius

  Almagest

  influence of

  Pumfrey, Stephen

  Pyrrho of Elis

  Pythagoras

  quadrants

  quarantine

  Quarles, Francis

  Queen’s Men (company)

  rainbow

  Raleigh, Walter

  Raman, Shankar

  The Rape of Lucrece (Shakespeare, W.)

  The Rare Triumphs of Love and Fortune (anonymous)

  Recorde, Robert

  The Castle of Knowledge

  Copernican system and

  The Grounde of the Artes

  life and career of

  The Pathway to Knowledge

  Reinhold, Erasmus

  relativity (Galilean)

  religion

  astrology and

  Bate on

  Bruno and

  Greenblatt on

  magic and

  Montaigne and

  science and

  Shakespeare, W., and

  Shapiro on

  witchcraft and

  Religion and the Decline of Magic (Thomas)

  retrograde motion, of planets

  Rey, H. A.

  Rheticus, Georg Joachim

  Richard II (Shakespeare, W.)

  clocks and timekeeping in

  commissioned production of

  perspectives in

  St. Paul’s Cathedral in

  Richard III (Shakespeare, W.)

  riddles

  Ridley, Mark

  Robertson, Pat

  Robinson, Edmund

  Rogers, Philip

  romances

  Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare, W.)

  atomism in

  lovers in

  medicine in

  plot of

  sun’s movement in

  Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (and “Rosenkrans” and “Guildensteren”)

  Rowland, Ingrid

  Royal Society of London

  Rudolf II (emperor)

  Russell, John

  Russell, Thomas

  SAA. See Shakespeare Association of America

  Sacerdoti, Gilberto

  Sacrobosco

  Sagan, Carl

  St. Paul’s Cathedral

  St. Thomas Hospital

  Santayana, George

  Saturn

  conjunction of Jupiter and

  in The Merchant of Venice

  Savile, Henry

  Savile, Thomas

  Saxo Grammaticus

  Sayce, R. A.

  Schoenbaum, Samuel

  schools

  science. See also scientific instruments; Scientific Revolution

  natural philosophy and

  religion and

  Shakespeare, W., interest in

  science fiction

  Science Museum (London)

  scientific instruments. See also specific instruments

  scientific literacy

  scientific method

  Scientific Revolution

  scientific societies

  The Scientific Revolution (Shapin)

  The Scientific Revolution: An Encyclopedia (Burns)

  Scot, Reginald

  Screech, M. A.

  Sea Venture, wreck of

  Segett, Thomas

  Select Observations on English Bodies of Eminent Persons in Desperate Diseases (Hall, J.)

  sextants
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  Sextus Empiricus

  Shakespeare, Edmund (brother)

  Shakespeare, Hamnet (son)

  Shakespeare, John (father)

  Shakespeare, Judith (daughter)

  Shakespeare, Mary (mother)

  Shakespeare, Susanna (daughter)

  Shakespeare, William. See also specific works

  baptism of

  birthday of

  birthplace

  bust of

  career of

  childhood of

  children of

  death of

  images of

  income of

  influences on

  in London

  life of

  lost years

  marriage of

  religion and

  “retirement” of

  science, interest in

  sexuality of

  Stratford-upon-Avon departure and

  Stratford-upon-Avon return and

  will of

  Shakespeare and the Dawn of Modern Science (Usher)

  Shakespeare Association of America (SAA)

  Shakespeare Newsletter

  Shakespeare Oxford Society

  Shakespeare’s Philosophy (McGinn)

  Shakespeare’s Tragic Cosmos (McAlindon)

  Shapin, Steven

  Shapiro, James

  on books

  on class prejudice

  on Ptolemaic system

  on religion

  A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare

  Sharpe, J. A.

  Shaw, George Bernard

  Shelley, Mary

  A Short History of Atheism (Hyman)

  Siderius nuncius. See The Starry Messenger

  Sidney, Philip

  “sieve and shears”

  Silvestris, Bernardus

  skepticism. See also atheism; King Lear; Montaigne, Michel de

  Sky & Telescope

  The Sky in Early Modern English Literature (Levy)

  Smith, Thomas

  Snell’s Law

  Snow, C. P.

  Sobel, Dava

  solar eclipses

  solar system. See also Copernican system; Ptolemaic system

  Tychonic model of

  Digges, T., diagram of

  size of

  structure of

  Tychonic system

  Solomon’s House

  solstices

  Somnium (Kepler)

  Sonnet 76 (Shakespeare, W.)

  Sonnet 135 (Shakespeare, W.)

  soul (conception of)

  of planets

  within sun

  South Central Review

  spectacles

  spellings, non-standardized

  Spencer, T. J. B.

  Sphaera Civitatis (Case)

  spheres. See also music of the spheres

  armillary

  Brahe on

  of stars

  system of

  Spiller, Elizabeth

  spleen

  spyglasses

  The Starry Messenger (Galileo)

  stars. See also astrolabes; astrology; constellations; Tycho’s star

  Aldebaran

  in Antony and Cleopatra

  brightness of

  Capella

  distance of

  in Hamlet

  in Henry IV, Part 1

  Kepler’s star

  measuring altitude of

  movement of

  navigation by

  plotting positions of

  pole

  spheres of

  Star of Bethlehem

  time and

  Tycho’s star (new star of 1572)

  Stimson, Dorothy

  Stjerneborg castle

  storm, in Othello

  Stratford Festival (Ontario)

  Stratford-upon-Avon

 

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