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

Inglese · Copertina rigida

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In a novel reading of Shakespeare's plays, this book addresses an observation first made many decades ago, that Shakespeare appears to neglect the intellectual upheavals that astronomy brought about in his lifetime. The author examines temporal, situational, and verbal anomalies in Hamlet and other plays using hermeneutic-dialectic methodology, and finds a consistent pattern of interpretation that is compatible with the history of astronomy and with the development of modern cosmology. He also demonstrates how Shakespeare takes into account beliefs about the nature of the heavens from the time of Pythagoras up to and including discoveries and theories in the first decade of the seventeenth century. The book makes the case that, as in many other fields, Shakespeare's celestial knowledge is far beyond what was commonly known at the time.

Students and teachers interested in Shakespeare's alleged indifference towards, or ignorance of, the celestial sciences will find this book illuminating, as will historians of science and scholars whose work focuses on epistemology and its relationship to the canon, and on how Shakespeare acquired the data that his plays deliver.

Sommario

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.

Info autore










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.


Riassunto

"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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

Autori Peter D Usher, Peter D. Usher
Editore Peter Lang
 
Lingue Inglese
Formato Copertina rigida
Pubblicazione 30.11.2021
 
EAN 9781433191701
ISBN 978-1-4331-9170-1
Pagine 186
Dimensioni 150 mm x 16 mm x 225 mm
Peso 370 g
Illustrazioni 24 Abb.
Categorie Narrativa > Poesia lirica, drammatica > Drammatica
Saggistica > Enciclopedie, opere di consultazione > Dizionari di lingua straniera
Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Linguistica generale e comparata

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