The Science of Shakespeare (59 page)
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Authors: Dan Falk
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Cholmeley, Richard
Christian IV (king of Denmark)
Christianized Aristotelianism
Christianson, John Robert
Chronicles
(Holinshed)
Church of England
Cicero
Clarke, Arthur C.
class prejudice
Clavius, Christopher
Clement VII (pope)
clocks and timekeeping
“clockwork universe.”
See
mechanical philosophy
Cohen, I. Bernard
Collins, Francis
comedies.
See also
individual plays
The Comedy of Errors
(Shakespeare, W.)
comets
of 1577
of 1580
of 1582 and 1607
of 1585
Halley's Comet
Commentariolus
(Copernicus)
Commentary
(Reinhold)
compass
Conceptions of Cosmos
(Kragh)
Condell, Henry
Configurations
conjunction
conspiracy theories
Copernican system
debate on
Dee on
Digges, T., and
interest in
Johnson, F., on
Ptolemaic system compared to
Recorde and
Usher on
Copernicus, Nicolaus
Commentariolus
De revolutionibus
life and career of
Coriolanus
(Shakespeare, W.)
Cormack, Lesley
corporal punishment
cosmic imagination
cosmic machine
cosmic order
Cosmographica
(Silvestris)
cosmology.
See also
Copernican system; Ptolemaic system; universe; individual astronomers
history of
Crakanthorpe, Richard
creationists
cross-staff
Culpeper, Arthur
Culpeper, Nicholas
cultural relativism
Cymbeline
(Shakespeare, W.)
Bate on
ghosts in
Greenblatt on
influences on
Jupiter and
magic in
Maisano on
numbers in
Pitcher on
plot of
social and cosmic order in
symbols in
Usher on
Cynthia (goddess)
Daemonologie
(James I)
Danielson, Dennis
Dante Alighieri
Davies, John
Dawson, Anthony
De animi immortalitate
(Cardano)
De humani corporis fabrica
(Vesalius)
De innumerabilibus, immenso, et infi gurabili
(Bruno)
De magnete
(Gilbert)
De Nova Stella
(Brahe)
De revolutionibus
(Copernicus)
influence of
Osiander's preface to
translations of
De triplici minimo
(Bruno)
de Viau, Théophile
Dear, Peter
Debus, Allen
Decameron
(Boccaccio)
Dee, John
on Copernican system
crystal of
Digges, T., and
influence of
life and career of
magic and
The Tempest
and
writings of
deferent circle
Dekker, Thomas
Democritus
Denmark
Dennett, Daniel
Descartes, René
Devereux, Robert
DeWitt, Richard
Diagoras of Melos
Digges, Leonard (father of Thomas Digges)
A Prognostication of Right Good Effect
Digges, Leonard (son of Thomas Digges)
Digges, Thomas
Alae seu scalae mathematicae
connection to Shakespeare
Copernican system and
death of
Dee and
on infinite universe
Johnson, F., and
“Letter sent by a gentleman” and
life and career of
A Prognostication Everlasting
solar system diagram of
Stratioticos
Digges family
Discourses and Mathematical Demonstrations Relating to Two New Sciences
(Galileo)
The Discovery of Witchcraft
(Scot)
diseases.
See also
medicine; plague
Divina Commedia
(Dante)
divine providence
Doctor Faustus
(Marlowe)
frontispiece of
influence of
magic in
planetary movement in
plot of
title character in
University of Wittenberg in
Donne, John
doubt
Drebbel, Cornelis
Droeshout, Martin
Dunn, Richard
Eagleton, Terry
Earth
as center of universe
curvature of
four elements of
magnetism and
meteors as vapors exhaled by
motion of
planets, distance from
position of
rotation of
as stationary
sun, distance from
Easter
eccentric circles
edge of the world debate
education.
See also
schools;
specific institutions
Edward the Second
(Marlowe)
Edward VI (king of England)
Edwards, Kathryn
elements
fifth
four
Elements
(Euclid)
Elizabeth (queen of England)
advisors to
appearance of
Astraea comparison to
engraving of
interests of
physician to
reign of
The Elizabethan Review
The Elizabethan World Picture
(Tillyard)
Elsinore castle
Elton, William
empiricism
empirics
empty space problem
England
material culture of
population growth in
English compared to Latin
ephemeris tables
Epicureanism
epicycles
Epistolae
(Brahe)
Epitome of Copernican Astronomy
(Kepler)
equant points
equinoxes
Essays
(Montaigne)
Essex, Earl of
Euclid
Evelyn, John
experimental method
familiar (witchcraft)
famine
fashion trends
Faustus, Johannes
Feinberg, Matthew
Feingold, Mordechai
Ferris, Timothy
fideism
Field, John
Field, Richard
Findlen, Paula
firmament
First Anniversary
(Donne)
First Folio (Shakespeare, W.)
engraving of Shakespeare in
frontispiece of
memorialized (London monument)
preface to
The First Three Minutes
(Weinberg)
Fletcher, John
Florio, John
Flude, Kevin
food riots
Fowler, Alastair
Frankenstein
(Shelley)
Frederick II (king of Denmark)
Friedrich, Hugo
Furness, Horace Howard
Galen of Pergamon
Galilean moons.
See
Moons of Jupiter
Galilei, Vincenzo
Galileo
The Assayer
birth of
Discourses and Mathematical Demonstrations Relating to Two New Sciences
ideas of
influence of
Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina
life and career of
moon observations
observations of
The Starry Messenger
Gamba, Marina
Gatti, Hilary
Gaveston, Piers
Gellibrand, Henry
geocentric theory.
See also
Ptolemaic system
geoheliocentric theory
geometry
George (saint)
ghosts
in
Cymbeline
in
Hamlet
Gilbert, William
Gingerich, Owen
Globe Theatre
Godless Shakespeare
(Mallin)
gods, associated with planets
Gosselin, Jean
grain hoarding
grammar schools
gravity
Grayling, A. C.
Great Chain of Being
Great Fire of London (1666)
The Great Instauration
(Bacon)
Greaves, John
Greenblatt, Stephen
on Bruno influence
on
Cymbeline
on
King Lear
and skepticism
on Lucretius and atomism
on Marlowe
on Montaigne's
Essays
on the “moral order”
on religion
on Shakespeare's female characters
on Shakespeare's personal life
on Shakespeare's world-view
The Swerve
Will in the World
Greene, Robert
Gresham, Thomas
Gresham College
Gribbin, John
The Grounde of the Artes
(Recorde)
Guildhall, London
Gunpowder Plot (1605)
Halio, Jay
Hall, John
Hall, Marie Boas
Halley, Edmond
Halley's Comet
Hamlet
(Shakespeare, W.)
act 3, scene 4 of
as allegory
astrology in
characters in
cost of
date of
Denmark as setting for
firmament in
ghost in
infinite space in
King Lear
versus
love poem in
mental illness in
murder in
names in
numbers in
opening scene of
popularity of
second act of
stars in
Usher on
Hamlet's Universe
(Usher)
Harkness, Deborah
Harriot, Thomas
Artis analyticae praxis
A Briefe and True Report
influence of
life and career of
Harry Potter series
Harsnett, Samuel
Harvard Magazine
Harvard Observatory
Harvard University
Harvey, William
Hathaway, Anne
Hawking, Stephen
Hazlitt, William
heat death of the universe
heavenly spheres.
See also
spheres
“the heavens” (stage effect)
Hecht, Jennifer Michael
heliocentric theory.
See also
Copernican system
Heminges, John
Heninger, S. K.
Henri (king of France)
Henry (prince of England)
Henry, John
Henry IV, Part 1 (
Shakespeare, W.)
astrology in
planetary motion in
spleen in
stars in
Henry IV, Part 2 (
Shakespeare, W.)
Henry V (
Shakespeare, W.)
Henry VI, Part 1
(Shakespeare, W.)
Henry VI, Part 3
(Shakespeare, W.)
Henry VIII (king of England)
herbs and plants, medicinal
Hermeticism
Hill, Nicolas
Hill, Thomas
Hippocrates
history plays
Hobbes, Thomas
Holbein the Younger, Hans
Holinshed, Raphael
Holy Trinity Church
Holyday, Barten
Hood, Thomas
Hooke, Robert
Horace
Hotson, Leslie
human corpse dissection
human-centered cosmos.
See also
universe
humors, four
Hurricane Katrina
Hutchinson, Roger
Hven island
Hyman, Gavin
inertia
infinite space
Bruno on
in
Hamlet
infinite universe
Digges, T., on
Inquisition
intelligent design
International Year of Astronomy (2009)
It Started with Copernicus
(Margolis)
Italy
Jacob, James
Jaggard, William
James I (king of England)
Daemonologie
interests of
James VI (king of Scotland).
See
James I
Jamestown, Virginia
Jardine, Boris
Jenkins, Harold
Jensen, Freyja Cox
Jesus Christ
jet-d'eau
The Jewel House
(Harkness)
Jews and
conversos
The Jew of Malta
(Marlowe)
Johnson, Francis
on Copernican system
Digges, T., and
on Donne
on education
on Gresham College
on Harriot's influence
Johnson, Samuel
Jones, Nigel
Jones, Norman
Jonson, Ben
The Alchemist
influence of
life and career of
The Magnetic Lady
masques by
quote by
Volpone
Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada
Julius Caesar
(Shakespeare, W.)
astrology in
cost of
the heavens in
magic in
numbers in
pole star in
social and cosmic order in
sun's movement in
Jupiter
conjunction of Saturn and
Cymbeline
and
Galileo's observations of
moons of
references to
just-world theory
Juvenal
Kelley, Edward
Kepler, Johannes
Astronomia Nova
Brahe and
Epitome of Copernican Astronomy
mother of
Mysterium Cosmographicum
Somnium
The Sure Fundamentals of Astrology
theory of
work of
Kepler's star
Kermode, Frank
King James Bible
King John
(Shakespeare, W.)
King Lear
(Shakespeare, W.)
