The Science of Shakespeare (60 page)

astrology in

authorship question and

famine in

Hamlet
versus

influences on

just-world theory and

McAlindon on

medicine in

popularity of

King Lear and the Gods
(Elton)

King's Men (company)

Know the Stars
(Rey)

Kocher, Paul

Kragh, Helge

Krauss, Lawrence

Kyd, Thomas

Lanyer, Aemilia

Latin

English compared to

schooling and

vernacular compared to

Lee, Edmund

Leicester, Earl of

Lerner, Melvin

“Letter sent by a gentleman” (I.G.D.V.)

Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina
(Galileo)

Leucippus

Levine, George

Levy, David

librations of moon

life expectancy

literacy

rise in

scientific

Literature and Science: Social Impact and Interaction
(Cartwright and Baker)

liver

Lives
(Plutarch)

lodestones

The Lodger
(Nicholl)

London

appearance of

as city

Great Fire of

Guildhall in

landmarks in

museums of

population of

and science

Shakespeare, W., in

Visscher's panorama of

London Bridge

London
Times

Lord Strange's Men

Louis XIV (king of France)

lovers, in
Romeo and Juliet

Love's Labour's Lost
(Shakespeare, W.)

Lower, William

Lucretius

atomism and

On the Nature of Things

lunar eclipse

Luther, Martin

Macbeth
(Shakespeare, W.)

astrology in

just-world theory and

mental illness in

murder in

numbers in

perspective in

plot of

witchcraft in

macrocosm, microcosm and

madness.
See
mental illness

Maestlin, Michael

magic

The Magnetic Lady
(Jonson)

magnetism

Maisano, Scott

on Brahe's influence

on clocks and timekeeping

on Galileo's influence

on Henry (prince of England)

on science fiction

on Usher's
Hamlet
theory

Mallin, Eric

Mansell, John

maps

Marchitello, Howard

Margolis, Howard

Marlowe, Christopher.
See also Doctor Faustus

connections with Shakespeare

Edward the Second

Greenblatt on

The Jew of Malta

life and career of

Tamburlaine the Great

Mars

material culture

materialism (philosophy).
See also
atomism; Lucretius

mathematics

McAlindon, Thomas

on astrology

on cosmic imagination

on
King Lear

Shakespeare's Tragic Cosmos

McGinn, Colin

McLean, Antonia

Meadows, A. J.

Measure for Measure
(Shakespeare, W.)

mechanical creatures

mechanical force

mechanical philosophy.
See also
atomism

Medici, Cosimo II de'

medicine

Médicis, Marie de

mental illness

Mercator, Gerard

The Merchant of Venice
(Shakespeare, W.)

algebra in

astronomical references in

Saturn in

Stars' movement in

Mercury
(journal)

Mercury (planet)

The Merry Wives of Windsor
(Shakespeare, W.)

meteors

microcosm and macrocosm

A Midsummer Night's Dream
(Shakespeare, W.)

almanacs in

numbers in

stars' spheres in

midwives

The Miller's Tale
(Chaucer)

Milton, John

Montaigne, Michel de

Essays

life and career of

“On the Cannibals”

religion and

and Shakespeare

moon

depictions of

influence of

librations of

movement and phases of

symbolism of

Moons of Jupiter

morality.
See
just-world theory

Mortlake, England

Most Worthy Discourses
(Palissy)

Mountjoy, Christopher

Much Ado about Nothing
(Shakespeare, W.)

murder

of Caesar

in
Hamlet

in
Macbeth

in
Othello

music of the spheres

Mysterium Cosmographicum
(Kepler)

mystery plays

natural philosophy

navigation

Neill, Michael

new philosophy

new star (1572).
See also
supernova; Tycho's star

New Word exploration

New York Times

“A New Reading of Shakespeare's
Hamlet
” (Usher)

Newbolt, Henry

The New Atlantis
(Bacon)

Newton, Isaac

on gravity

work of

Nicholas of Cusa

Nicholl, Charles

Nicholson, Marjorie Hope

Norman, Robert

North, Thomas

north star.
See
pole star

nothingness

Novara

numbers (in the Shakespeare canon)

Nuovo cielo, nuova terra
(Sacerdoti)

Of the Progress of the Soule
(Donne)

Old Operating Theatre Museum and Herb Garret (London)

Olsen, Kirstin

on medicine

Olson, Donald

“On the Cannibals” (Montaigne)

On the Infinite Universe and Worlds
(Bruno)

On the Nature of Things
(Lucretius)

Orchard, Thomas

The Orchestra
(Davies)

Oresme, Nicole

Orgel, Stephen

Orion

Orwin, Thomas

Osiander, Andreas

Othello
(Shakespeare, W.)

just-world theory and

moon's influence in

murder in

storm in

Varorium edition of

Ovid

Oxford University

Oxfordian

Oxfordians.
See
anti-Stratfordians

paganism

Palissy, Bernard

Palmer, Ada

Panek, Richard

pantheism

Paracelsus

Paradise Lost
(Milton)

parallax

Pascal, Blaise

The Pathway to Knowledge
(Recorde)

Paul III (pope)

Payne-Gaposchkin, Celia

pendulum

Percy, Charles

Percy, Henry

Pericles
(Shakespeare, W., and Wilkins)

Perkins, William

perpetual motion machine

personality

perspective glasses

perspectives (in geometry and painting)

perspicillum

philosophy

natural

new

phlegm

physicians

Pickering, William

Pitcher, John

on Galileo's influence

on Usher's
Hamlet
theory

Pius V (pope)

plague

planets.
See also specific planets

brightness of

composition of

distance from Earth

gods associated with

movement of

near ecliptic

orbits of

positions of

retrograde motion of

souls of

as wandering stars

Plato

Plutarch

Plymouth colony

Polaris

pole star

polymaths

Poor Laws

Pope, Maurice

Popper, Karl

population

predestination

Primaudaye, Pierre de la

primum mobile (that which moves first)

Principe, Lawrence

printing press

A Prognostication Everlasting
(Digges, T.)

A Prognostication of Right Good Effect
(Digges, L.)

prostitution

Protestant Reformation

Protestantism

Psalm 19

Ptolemaic system

armillary sphere of

Copernican system compared to

demise of

Shapiro on

support for

Ptolemy, Claudius

Almagest

influence of

Pumfrey, Stephen

Pyrrho of Elis

Pythagoras

quadrants

quarantine

Quarles, Francis

Queen's Men (company)

rainbow

Raleigh, Walter

Raman, Shankar

The Rape of Lucrece
(Shakespeare, W.)

The Rare Triumphs of Love and Fortune
(anonymous)

Recorde, Robert

The Castle of Knowledge

Copernican system and

The Grounde of the Artes

life and career of

The Pathway to Knowledge

Reinhold, Erasmus

relativity (Galilean)

religion

astrology and

Bate on

Bruno and

Greenblatt on

magic and

Montaigne and

science and

Shakespeare, W., and

Shapiro on

witchcraft and

Religion and the Decline of Magic
(Thomas)

retrograde motion, of planets

Rey, H. A.

Rheticus, Georg Joachim

Richard II
(Shakespeare, W.)

clocks and timekeeping in

commissioned production of

perspectives in

St. Paul's Cathedral in

Richard III
(Shakespeare, W.)

riddles

Ridley, Mark

Robertson, Pat

Robinson, Edmund

Rogers, Philip

romances

Romeo and Juliet
(Shakespeare, W.)

atomism in

lovers in

medicine in

plot of

sun's movement in

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (and “Rosenkrans” and “Guildensteren”)

Rowland, Ingrid

Royal Society of London

Rudolf II (emperor)

Russell, John

Russell, Thomas

SAA.
See
Shakespeare Association of America

Sacerdoti, Gilberto

Sacrobosco

Sagan, Carl

St. Paul's Cathedral

St. Thomas Hospital

Santayana, George

Saturn

conjunction of Jupiter and

in
The Merchant of Venice

Savile, Henry

Savile, Thomas

Saxo Grammaticus

Sayce, R. A.

Schoenbaum, Samuel

schools

science.
See also
scientific instruments; Scientific Revolution

natural philosophy and

religion and

Shakespeare, W., interest in

science fiction

Science Museum (London)

scientific instruments.
See also
specific instruments

scientific literacy

scientific method

Scientific Revolution

scientific societies

The Scientific Revolution
(Shapin)

The Scientific Revolution: An Encyclopedia
(Burns)

Scot, Reginald

Screech, M. A.

Sea Venture,
wreck of

Segett, Thomas

Select Observations on English Bodies of Eminent Persons in Desperate Diseases
(Hall, J.)

sextants

Sextus Empiricus

Shakespeare, Edmund (brother)

Shakespeare, Hamnet (son)

Shakespeare, John (father)

Shakespeare, Judith (daughter)

Shakespeare, Mary (mother)

Shakespeare, Susanna (daughter)

Shakespeare, William.
See also specific works

baptism of

birthday of

birthplace

bust of

career of

childhood of

children of

death of

images of

income of

influences on

in London

life of

lost years

marriage of

religion and

“retirement” of

science, interest in

sexuality of

Stratford-upon-Avon departure and

Stratford-upon-Avon return and

will of

Shakespeare and the Dawn of Modern Science
(Usher)

Shakespeare Association of America (SAA)

Shakespeare Newsletter

Shakespeare Oxford Society

Shakespeare's Philosophy
(McGinn)

Shakespeare's Tragic Cosmos
(McAlindon)

Shapin, Steven

Shapiro, James

on books

on class prejudice

on Ptolemaic system

on religion

A Year in the Life of William Shakespeare

Sharpe, J. A.

Shaw, George Bernard

Shelley, Mary

A Short History of Atheism
(Hyman)

Siderius nuncius. See The Starry Messenger

Sidney, Philip

“sieve and shears”

Silvestris, Bernardus

skepticism.
See also
atheism;
King Lear;
Montaigne, Michel de

Sky & Telescope

The Sky in Early Modern English Literature
(Levy)

Smith, Thomas

Snell's Law

Snow, C. P.

Sobel, Dava

solar eclipses

solar system.
See also
Copernican system; Ptolemaic system

Tychonic model of

Digges, T., diagram of

size of

structure of