From the Book - First edition.
" : a brief history of cosmology
"He that is giddy thinks the world turns round
" : Nicolaus Copernicus, the reluctant reformer
"This majestical roof fretted with golden fire
" : Tycho Brahe and Thomas Digges
"These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights
" : the shadow of Copernicus and the dawn of science
sorrow's eye, glazed with blinding tears
" : the rise of English science and the question of the Tudor telescope
"Who is it that can tell me who I am?" : a brief history of William Shakespeare
"More things in heaven and earth
" : the science of Hamlet
a hawk from a handsaw" : reading Shakespeare, and reading into Shakespeare
"Does the world go round?" : Shakespeare and Galileo
"Treachers by spherical predominance
" : the allure of astrology
"Fair is foul, and foul is fair
" : magic in the age of Shakespeare
" : Shakespeare and medicine
"Drawn with a team of little atomi
" : living in the material world
" : the disappearing gods
"They say miracles are past