The Science of Shakespeare (59 page)

choler

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.)