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My main interests in the humanities lie in the fields of History of Astronomy and Shakespeare and Astronomy.

Education

MSc, University of the Free State, South Africa

PhD, Harvard University

Blog Posts

    Publications

    Shakespeare’s Knowledge of Astronomy and the Birth of Modern Cosmology (New York: Peter Lang, 2021)

    The Merchant of Venice and the Paschal Moon.” Pólemos Journal of Law, Literature, and Culture 14:1 (2020) 183–195.

    “Tubal, Shylock, and the Myth of Venice.” Pólemos Journal of Law, Literature and Culture 12:2 (2018) 415-428.

    “Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra and the New Astronomy.” Notes & Queries 65:1 (2018) 81–83.

    “Shakespeare and the Scientific Revolution of the Sixteenth Century: Telescopy and the Hamlet Allegory.” Paper presented at the History of Science Society panel on “Vernacular Knowledge and Learned Tradition in Early Modern England: Movement, Practice, Reception.” 5 November 2016.

    “Lancelot’s Nosebleed.” Notes & Queries 63:3 (2016) 419–20.

    Shakespeare and Saturn: Accounting for Appearances. (New York: Peter Lang, 2015).

    “Thomas Digges’s Perception of Stellar Sizes and Distances.” Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society Canada 108:5 (2014) 200–207.

    “Shakespeare and Science,” Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, April 14, 2014.

    “Kepler’s Supernova and Shakespeare’s All’s Well.” Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society Canada 107:3 (2013), 103–105.

    Shakespeare and the Dawn of Modern Science (Amherst, NY: Cambria, 2010).

    “Shakespeare and Elizabethan Telescopy.” Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society Canada 103:1 (2009), 16-21.

    “Hawk and Handsaw.” Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society 40 (2008), 273.

    “Hamlet’s Love Letter and the New Philosophy.” The Oxfordian 8 (2005), 93-109.

    “Galileo’s Telescopy and Jupiter’s Tablet.” Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society 35:5 (2003), 1258.

    “Jupiter and Cymbeline.” The Shakespeare Newsletter 53:1 (2003), 7-12.

    “Shakespeare’s Support for the New Astronomy.” The Oxfordian 5 (2002), 132-46.

    “Sixteenth Century Astronomical Telescopy.” Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society 33 (2001), 1363.

    “Advances in the Hamlet Cosmic Allegory.” The Oxfordian 4 (2001), 25-49.

    “Hamlet’s Transformation.” A Groat’s Worth of Wit 11:3 (2000), 39-51.

    “Hamlet’s Transformation.” Elizabethan Review 7:1 (1999), 48-64.

    “Ruin and Revolution in Hamlet.” Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society 31 (1999), 871.

    “Amleto e l’Universo infinito.” Giornale di Astronomia 24:3 (1998), 27-30.

    “La Visione del Cosmo di William Shakespeare.” Giornale di Astronomia 24:1 (1998), 26-31.

    “Harriot, Digges, and the Ghost in Hamlet.” Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society 30 (1998), 1428.

    “Hamlet’s Transformation.” Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society 29 (1997), 1262.

    “Hamlet and the Infinite Universe.” Research Penn State 18:3 (1997), 6-7.

    “Shakespeare’s Cosmic World View.” Mercury Magazine 26:1 (1997), 20-3.

    “A New Reading of Shakespeare’s Hamlet.” Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society 28 (1996), 1305.

    Memberships

    Royal Astronomical Society

    American Astronomical Society

    International Astronomical Union

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