The Science of Shakespeare: A New Look at the Playwright’s Universe

First edition, second impression. xvi, 364pp, with occasional monochrome illustrations in text. In black cloth-covered boards with silver lettering on spine. 8vo. Neat, clean, bright and tight throughout. In its original dust jacket, very slightly bumped at edges, remains of price sticker. The Science of Shakespeare introduces a range of colour characters and renaissance thinkers, including Thomas Digges, who published the first English account of the new astronomy, Thomas Harriot, England’s Galileo who aimed a telescope at the night sky months before his Italian counterpart, and Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe whose observatory stood within sight of Elsinore (the setting for Hamlet); and explores how new astronomy and other scientific advances of the age influenced Shakespeare.