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Shakespeare's Knowledge of Astronomy and the Birth of Modern Cosmology (Hardcover, New edition)
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Shakespeare's Knowledge of Astronomy and the Birth of Modern Cosmology (Hardcover, New edition)
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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.
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