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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Read the rest of The Astronomy of Shakespeare (292 words)
© Elizabeth Howell for Universe Today, 2013. |
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