Read The Science of Shakespeare Online
Authors: Dan Falk
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Index
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AAS.
See
American Astronomical Society
Abbot, George
Ackroyd, Peter
The Advancement of Learning
(Bacon)
Aeneid
(Virgil)
afterlife
Alae seu scalae mathematicae
(Digges, T.)
The Alchemist
(Jonson)
alchemy
Aldebaran (star)
alewives
Alfonso X (king of León)
algebra
allegory
All's Well That Ends Well
(Shakespeare, W.)
astrology in
medicine in
passages from
planetary movement in
Almagest
(Ptolemy)
almanacs
The Ambassadors
(Holbein the Younger)
American Astronomical Society (AAS)
Amleth (fictional prince)
anamorphosis
An Anatomy of the World
(Donne)
Andrews, John
Anger, Jane
animistic worldview
anti-Stratfordians.
See also
authorship question
Antony and Cleopatra
(Shakespeare, W.)
book of nature in
first scene of
magic in
perspectives in
soothsayer's line from
stars in
apothecaries
Aquilecchia, Giovanni
Archer, Jayne
Aristarchus of Samos
Aristotle
influence of
arithmetic
armillary spheres
Artis analyticae praxis
(Harriot)
As You Like It
(Shakespeare, W.)
atomism in
clocks and timekeeping in
influences on
school in
Asimov, Isaac
The Assayer
(Galileo)
Astraea (star maiden)
astrolabes
astrology
decline of
Astronomia Nova
(Kepler)
Astronomiae Instauratae Progymnasmata
(Brahe)
astronomical software
astronomy.
See also specific individuals
education in
references to
research in
atheism
atomism and
history of
Atlas (Greek deity)
Atlas of the Principal Cities of the World
atomism
atheism and
Lucretius and
authorship question
automata
Bacon, Francis
The Advancement of Learning
The Great Instauration
life and career of
The New Atlantis
Baer, Nicholai Reymers (Ursus)
Baines, Richard
Baker, Brian
Baker, Humphrey
Bakewell, Sarah
Ball, Philip
ballad sheets
barbers
Bate, Jonathan
on
Cymbeline
on physicians
on prostitution
on religion
on villains
BBC
bear stage direction, in
The Winter's Tale
Beard, Thomas
Becket, Thomas
The Belief in a Just World: A Fundamental Delusion
(Lerner)
Bell, Millicent
Belleforest, François de
Bertram, Benjamin
Bethlehem Hospital
Bevington, David
Bible.
See also specific books
references to
scenes and stories from
versions of
big bang (cosmology)
bile.
See
black bile; yellow bile
bishop of Paris
Bishop's Bible
black bile
Blackfriars Theatre
Blagrave, John
blood
bloodletting
Bloom, Harold
Blount, Edward
Blythe House
Boccaccio, Giovanni
Bodin, Jean
Book of Common Prayer
Book of Joshua
“book of nature”
books and publishing
Boorstin, Daniel
Borough, William
Boswell, William
Bourne, William
Boyle, Robert
Bradley, A. C.
Brahe, Tycho.
See also
Tychonic system; Tycho's star
Astronomiae Instauratae Progymnasmata
comet of 1577 and
comet of 1585 and
De Nova Stella
death of
deformity of
engraving of
Epistolae
on Hven island
influence of
Kepler and
life and career of
relatives of
solar system model
Braunmuller, A. R.
breeched
A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia
(Harriot)
Brigden, Susan
Briggs, Henry
Brown, Agnes
Brown, Douglas
Bruno, Giordano
Candelaio
La cena de le ceneri
De innumerabilibus, immenso, et infi gurabili
De triplici minimo
on infinite space
On the Infinite Universe and Worlds
life and career of
at Oxford
possible connection to Shakespeare
religion and
statue of
Bryson, Bill
Buckley, George
Burbage, Richard
Burns, William
Butler, Martin
Byard, Margaret
Caesar, Julius, murder of
Calvin, John
Cambridge University
Camden, William
Campbell, Gordon
Candelaio
(Bruno)
cannabis
Capella (star)
Cardano, Girolamo
Cartwright, John
Cary, Elizabeth
Case, John
Cassini, Giovanni
Cassiopeia
The Castle of Knowledge
(Recorde)
Catholicism
CBC Radio's
Ideas
Cecil, William
celestial globe
La cena de le ceneri
(Bruno)
Chancellor, Richard
Chandos portrait
Chapman, Allan
Charles I (king of England)
Chaucer, Geoffrey
Cheapside
Chelmsford witches