Shakespeare?s Knowledge of Astronomy and the Birth of Modern Cosmology. Este artículo no está disponible.Shakespeare?s Knowledge of Astronomy and the Birth of Modern Cosmology

"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.

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.