Shakespeare: poet, playwright, scientist

• Autores: Dan Falk
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2965, 2014, págs. 41-42
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • William Shakespeare is known for being many things--but never a scientist. Yet on the eve of his 450th birthday, people show how his imagination was fired by a curiosity about the natural world, starting with the radical cosmology that shaped his greatest work, Hamlet. The star in Hamlet may have been inspired by a supernova, and Hamlet's soliloquies may subtly question the old ideas about Earth's place in the universe. One astronomer even claims the play is an allegory for the scientific revolution sweeping through Europe. Here, Falk reappraises Shakespeare's interest in the natural world