by Dan Falk
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