Peter Whitfield

Throughout history, people have sought ways to map the heavens. From the sources of mathematics and mythology sprang the classic star chart, the finest examples of which are both scientific documents and works of art. In this beautifully illustrated book, Mapping the Heavens, Peter Whitfield reveals some of the ways in which the structure of the universe has been conceived,...

The locations of Shakespeare's plays range from Greece, Turkey and Syria to England, and they range in time from 1000 BC to the early Tudor age. He never set a play explicitly in Elizabethan London, which he and his audience inhabited, but always in places remote in space or time. How much did he—and his contemporaries—know about the foreign cities...