Shakespeare's Knowledge of Astronomy and the Birth of Modern Cosmology

ISBN-13: 9781433191701 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 186 str.

Peter D. Usher

Opis

"Hamlet" and other plays by Shakespeare are allegories for the major theories of cosmology extant during the poet's lifetime. Shakespeare writes of the competition between Earth-centered and Sun-centered cosmologies, and between planetary systems in bounded and infinite space.

Spis treści

List of Illustrations - List of Tables - Preface - Acknowledgements - Introduction - Modern Views -Hamlet and the Phantom Falcon - Hamlet and the Winds of Change - Hamlet and the New Astronomy -Hamlet and the Resolution Revolution - The Winter's Tale - Cymbeline - The Merchant of Venice - The Birth of Modern Cosmology - Saturn's Orbit and Ring Cycle - Integers in The Winter's Tale - Location of Belmont - Extremum Diurnal Parallaxes and Angular Sizes of Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn - Celestial data in Shakespeare's plays - Glossary - Index.

O autorze

Peter D. Usher is Emeritus Professor at the Pennsylvania State University. He holds a PhD in astronomy from Harvard and an MSc in applied mathematics from the University of the Free State in South Africa. He is the author of three books on Shakespeare and astronomy, and his other research includes perturbation theory, active galaxies, faint blue stars, and quasars.