Shakespeare's Knowledge of Astronomy and the Birth of Modern Cosmology by Usher, Peter D.

Shakespeare's Knowledge of Astronomy and the Birth of Modern Cosmology (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781433191701)

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Format: Hardcover
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Shakespeare's Knowledge of Astronomy and the Birth of Modern Cosmology by Usher, Peter D.

Shakespeare's Knowledge of Astronomy and the Birth of Modern Cosmology

$92.65
Shakespeare's Knowledge of Astronomy and the Birth of Modern Cosmology by Usher, Peter D.

Shakespeare's Knowledge of Astronomy and the Birth of Modern Cosmology

$92.65
Format: Hardcover
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"Hamlet" and other plays by Shakespeare are allegories for the major theories of cosmology extant during the poet's lifetime. Shakespeare writes of the competition between Earth-centered and Sun-centered cosmologies, and between planetary systems in bounded and infinite space.



Author: Peter D. Usher
ISBN-10: 1433191709
ISBN-13: 9781433191701
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Language: English
Published: 11/30/2021
Pages: 186
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.98lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d
By Peter D. Usher
By Peter D. Usher
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Peter D. Usher is Emeritus Professor at the Pennsylvania State University. He holds a PhD in astronomy from Harvard and an MSc in applied mathematics from the University of the Free State in South Africa. He is the author of three books on Shakespeare and astronomy, and his other research includes perturbation theory, active galaxies, faint blue stars, and quasars.

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