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Shakespeare and the Dawn of Modern Science (Hardcover, New)
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Shakespeare and the Dawn of Modern Science (Hardcover, New)
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In Shakespeare and the Dawn of Modern Science, renowned astronomy
expert Peter Usher expands upon his allegorical interpretation of
Hamlet and analyzes four more plays, Love's Labour's Lost,
Cymbeline, The Merchant of Venice, and The Winter's Tale. With
painstaking thoroughness, he dissects the plays and reveals that,
contrary to current belief, Shakespeare was well aware of the
scientific revolutions of his time. Moreover, Shakespeare imbeds in
the allegorical subtext information on the appearances of the Sun,
Moon, planets, and stars that he could not have known without
telescopic aid, yet these plays appeared coeval with or prior to
the commonly accepted date of 1610 for the invention and first use
of the astronomical telescope. Dr. Usher argues that an early
telescope, the so-called perspective glass, was the likely means
for the acquisition of these data. This device was invented by the
mathematician Leonard Digges, whose grandson of the same name
contributed poems to the First and Second Folio editions of
Shakespeare's plays. Shakespeare and the Dawn of Modern Science is
an important addition to literature, history, and science
collections as well as to personal libraries.
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