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The Astronomy of Shakespeare

Sunday, February 17, 2013 11:51

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A portrait of William Shakespeare on the cover of the first Folio of his plays. Credit: Elizabethan Club of Yale University

With all this talk lately of rocks whizzing by Earth (or crashing through the atmosphere), it’s remarkable that we didn’t even know of space rocks a few centuries ago. The first asteroid, 1 Ceres, was discovered in 1801.

Dial back a few centuries, and we were still in the realm of a perfect universe with the Earth at the center. William Shakespeare’s (1564-1616) plays are full of these references. Universe Today recently stumbled across a 1964 Irish Astronomical Journal paper replete with examples.

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