Beschreibung
In
, Usher summarizes earlier results and shows that in
, Shakespeare takes account of the last supernova eruption of 1604 known to have occurred in the Milky Way galaxy. He shows further that in
and
Shakespeare makes accurate observations concerning Saturn’s spectacular ring system.
Autorenportrait
Peter D. Usher is Emeritus Professor of Astronomy and Astrophysics at The Pennsylvania State University. He received his MSc from the University of the Free State in South Africa and his PhD from Harvard. He is the author of
and
and has published more than one hundred papers in peer-reviewed journals. His research accomplishments include the analytic derivation of the equations of invariant imbedding, the discovery of the renormalized Poincaré-Lighthill perturbation expansion, a generalization of the method of shoot and fit, and a survey of medium-bright quasars. His papers on Shakespeare and science have appeared in
, and
.
Inhalt
Contents: Hamlet and Three Plays Involving Saturn – All’s Well That Ends Well – Much Ado About Nothing – The Comedy of Errors – Properties of Saturn – Observable Features of Saturn – On Telescopy.
