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Timeline and Personification in The Merchant of Venice"

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

Peter D. Usher

In a novel reading of Shakespeare’s plays, this book addresses an observation first made many decades ago, that Shakespeare appears to neglect the intellectual upheavals that astronomy brought about in his lifetime. The author examines temporal, situational, and verbal...

Shakespeare and Saturn

Peter D. Usher

In the mid-sixteenth century, Copernicus asserted that the Earth was not the center of the universe as was generally believed, but that the sun lay there instead. The relegation of the Earth to the rank of an orbiting planet meant that humankind lost its privileged...