The Science of Shakespeare (54 page)

“These ghosts happen…”
Usher, “Jupiter and
Cymbeline
,” p. 8.

“The book placed on the bosom…”
Usher, “Jupiter and
Cymbeline
,” p. 8.

“
Cymbeline
has mystical…”
Usher,
Shakespeare and the Dawn of Modern Science
, p. 171.

“… on new discoveries”
Usher,
Shakespeare and the Dawn of Modern Science
, p. 183.

“is replete with zodiacal…”
Usher,
Shakespeare and the Dawn of Modern Science
, p. 224.

“is a paean to the glories…”
Usher,
Shakespeare and the Dawn of Modern Science
, p. xxii.

“If it seems incongruous…”
Maisano, “Shakespeare's Last Act,” p. 403.

“Shakespeare must have seen…”
quoted in Maisano, “Shakespeare's Last Act,” p. 403.

“a backward-looking romance…”
Maisano, “Shakespeare's Last Act,” p. 411.

“… undoubtedly Galileo”
Maisano, “Shakespeare's science fictions,” accessed online.

“the only such utterance…”
Maisano, “Shakespeare's Last Act,” p. 413.

“calls our attention…”
Maisano, “Shakespeare's Last Act,” p. 429.

“seems to have set…”
Maisano, “Shakespeare's Last Act,” p. 415.

“by the evidence of…”
Pitcher, p. lxix.

“in Ptolemaic cosmology…”
Butler,
Cymbeline
, p. 220.

“In that year, because of Galileo…”
Pitcher, p. lxix.

“as a deliberate and subtle…”
Pitcher, p. lxxiii.

“If Galileo's telescope…”
Pitcher, p. lxxiii.

“possibly a way of saying…”
Pitcher, p. lxxvi.

“a scientific publication…”
Pitcher, p. lxxii.

10. THE ALLURE OF ASTROLOGY

“Treachers by spherical predominance…”
King Lear
(1.2.108).

 … the date of July 11, 1564
Ackroyd, p. 4.

“Saturn was passing through…”
quoted in Brigden, p. 299.

“People watched the sky…”
Olsen, vol. 1, p. 71.

“a fringe position”
Olsen, vol. 1, p. 60.

“an essential aspect…”
Thomas,
Religion and the Decline of Magic,
p. 338.

“had a fair claim to being…”
Sharpe,
Early Modern England
, p. 307.

“man's body, and all other…”
quoted in Hale, p. 568.

“the most part of men…”
quoted in Kocher, p. 210.

“An expert and prudent astrologer…”
quoted in Thomas, p. 392.

“If thou want'st an heir…”
quoted in Thomas, p. 393.

Shakespeare's company consulted …
Ackroyd, p. 374.

an English pamphlet
See Hale, p. 567.

“… both truth and falsehood”
Montaigne (ed. Screech), p. 44.

“Nowadays among the common…”
quoted in Thomas, p. 269.

“probably the most ambitious” / “coherent and comprehensive”
Thomas, pp. 340, 391.

“often looked suspiciously…”
Kocher, p. 201.

“If we cannot deny…”
quoted in Thomas, p. 395.

“not to hear about the stars…”
Kocher, p. 207.

“For in those thinges…”
quoted in Kocher, p. 213.

“So fared another clerk…”
The quotation from
The Miller's Tale,
is lines 349–53;
http://www.librarius.com/canttran/milltale/milltale331-387.htm
.

In the New Cambridge edition
These quotations are from Halio, p. 121.

“He scorns the platitudes…”
Bevington,
Shakesepare's Ideas
, p. 168.

“part of an endeavour…”
McAlindon, p. 4.

“hardly any would work…”
quoted in Thomas, p. 355.

“lost their reputation…”
quoted in Thomas, p. 355.

“For their observations…”
quoted in Thomas, p. 398.

“The paradox…”
Thomas, p. 401.

“The world could no longer…”
Thomas, p. 415.

11. MAGIC IN THE AGE OF SHAKESPEARE

“Fair is foul, and foul is fair”
Macbeth
(1.1.12).

“perhaps the most striking…”
Braunmuller, p. 118.

“The weird sisters rise…”
quoted in Braunmuller, p. 24.

“a soul tortured by…”
Bradley, p. 276.

“not of brevity but of speed”
Bradley, p. 276.

As Terry Eagleton asserts
See Dickson, p. 210.

“Long misogynistic traditions…”
/
“less resistant to Satan's advances”
Edwards, p. 45; Sharpe,
Early Modern England
, p. 312.

“it was the women who…”
Thomas, p. 678.

“old woman with a wrinkled face…”
quoted in Thomas, p. 677.

“whether the accused…”
Olsen, vol. 2, p. 678.

In England, records show
The English and Scottish figures are from Sharpe, “The Debate on Witchcraft,” p. 513, and from Edwards, p. 32.

“wit, understanding, or sence”
Olsen, vol. 3, p. 675.

“a thing like a black Dog…”
quoted in Edwards, p. 37.

young Edmund admitted
Sharpe, “The Debate on Witchcraft,” p. 520.

“to chasten sinful humankind…”
quoted in Edwards, p. 39.

“… salvation and damnation”
Brigden, p. 302.

“the growing preoccupation…”
Edwards, p. 47.

“Sorcerers are too common…”
quoted in Thomas, p. 209.

“only one branch…”
Thomas, p. 210.

endorsed by scientists …
Thomas, p. 261.

“Let a man's child…”
quoted in Thomas, p. 300.

“both one Master…”
quoted in Vaughan and Vaughan, p. 63.

“witches, conjurers, enchanters…”
quoted in Thomas, p. 307.

“can only be imagined…”
Spiller, pp. 26, 36.

“… serious magician and carnival illusionist”
Vaughan and Vaughan, p. 63.

“at least possible…”
Gatti,
Essays on Giordano Bruno
, p. 163.

“… science and imposture”
Campbell, p. xviii.

“the possibility of telepathy…”
Thomas, p. 266.

“I erect the whole of astronomy…”
quoted in Rosen,
Kepler's
Somnium
, p. 100.

the first astrophysicist
Gingerich,
The Book Nobody Read
, p. 168.

“implied an end to the…”
Cohen,
Revolution in Science
, p. 129.

“soul principle”
Cohen,
Revolution in Science
, p. 132.

“a Renaissance scientific paradox…”
Debus, p. 100.

“we could easily assemble…”
Cohen,
Revolution in Science
, p. 127.

“foolish little daughter…”
quoted in Baumgardt, p. 27.

“the last major astronomer…”
Cohen,
Revolution in Science
, p. 127.

“The overwhelming impression…”
Sharpe,
Early Modern England
, pp. 308–9.

“is precisely because…”
Henry, p. 55.

“The end of our foundation…”
quoted in Henry, p. 59.

12. SHAKESPEARE AND MEDICINE

“A body yet distempered…”
Henry IV, Part 2
(3.1.40).

“Behold at Southwark…”
http://www.thegarret.org.uk/pdfs/exhibitions/stthomashospitalmedieval.pdf

As Kirstin Olsen notes
See Olsen, p. 473.

more than six hundred editions
Hale, p. 557.

“an angry mob…”
Olsen, vol. 1, p. 10.

“… a blood-letting lancet”
quoted in Hale, p. 543.

“… usually failed to work”
Olsen, vol. 1, p. 177.

“houses lately infected…”
quoted in Ackroyd, p. 477.

“Mortality and anxiety…”
Ackroyd, p. 119.

“simply wandered from…”
Olsen, vol. 1, p. 398.

“unobtrusive”
Pope, p. 287.

“The number of medical references…”
Andrews, vol. 2, p. 98.

“several dignified … medical men”
Bate, p. 46.

“Mrs
Hall of Stratford
…”
quoted in Bate, p. 44.

“the intimate relationship…”
Bate, p. 46.

“Then was a pigeon cut…”
Kevin Flude, unpublished article.

“… at this particular stage”
Flude, author interview, June 22, 2012.

“… from the reality”
Flude, unpublished article.

13. LIVING IN THE MATERIAL WORLD

“Drawn with a team of little atomi…”
Romeo and Juliet
(1.4.58).

“Fly all around…”
Lucretius, pp. 65–66.

“… risking eternal damnation”
Bertram, p. 171.

“Of her own, by chance…”
quoted in Hecht, p. 151.

“… in Einstein or Freud…”
Flow, accessed online.

“There is no master plan…”
Greenblatt,
The
Swerve
, p. 6.

“For certainty not by design…”
Lucretius, p. 32.

“… the taint of vile religion”
quoted in Hecht, p. 150.

“the notion, intrinsic…”
Hyman, p. 3.

“Lucretian thoughts percolated…”
Greenblatt,
The
Swerve
, p. 220.

Some thirty Latin editions
Palmer, p. 414.

he had a medal struck
Burke, p. 14.

“a thorny undertaking”
quoted in Bakewell, p. 33.

“I turn my gaze inward…”
quoted in Bakewell, p. 224.

“What kind of Good…”
Montaigne (ed. Screech), p. 653.

“The fury of the mob…”
Montaigne (ed. Screech), p. 656.

“… to roast someone alive”
quoted in Jacob, p. 35.

“monstrous thing” / “… darkness of irreligion”
Montaigne (ed. Screech), pp. 498, 500.

“The wise man ought…”
quoted in Jacob, p. 37.

“… as a social ripple”
Jacob, p. 37.

“has convinced [himself] that…”
Montaigne (ed. Screech), p. 502.

“atheistic naturalism”
Montaigne (ed. Screech), p. xli.

“anthropological curiosity”
Friedrich, p. 134.

“erroneous conclusion”
Friedrich, p. 137.

goat's blood was probably …
Sayce, p. 186.

“points to the scientific method…”
Sayce, p. 187.

“[Diagoras] was shown…”
Montaigne (ed. Screech), p. 44.

“We have formed a truth…”
quoted in Bakewell, p. 129.

If colored glass is used …
Montaigne (ed. Screech), p. 676.

“So whoever judges…”
quoted in Jacob, p. 36.

“… inevitably swept away”
Montaigne (ed. Screech), p. 676.

“When I play with my cat…”
Montaigne (ed. Screech), p. 505.

“it was the earth that moved…”
Montaigne (ed. Florio), p. 514.

“one of the first in France…”
Friedrich, p. 140.

“Montaigne shows…” / “the theories of Copernicus…”
Sayce, pp. 79, 110.

“Is it not more likely…”
Montaigne (ed. Screech), pp. 644–5.

“raised a huge question mark…”
Bakewell, p. 139.

“Montaigne's preference for details…”
Bakewell, p. 275.

“hidden Englishman”
Bakewell, p. 276.

“that hath no kinde of traffike…”
quoted in Vaughan and Vaughan, p. 61.

“Montaigne's fingerprints are…”
Stephen Greenblatt, author interview, May 1, 2012.

“rhetorical strategy of exploring…”
Vaughan and Vaughan, p. 61.

the British Museum has a copy
See, for example, Bell, p. 20.

“held up as
modern
writers…”
Bakewell, p. 279.

“seems indebted to the French essayist…”
Halio, p. 9.

contains more than a hundred words
Bell, pp. 17, 146.

“skeptic philosopher”
Bell, p. 169.

“Edmond is an adventurer…”
Bradley, pp. 249–50.

“I think of Edmond…”
Stephen Greenblatt, author interview, May 1, 2012.