Rob Eastaway 
Much Ado About Numbers: Shakespeare’s Mathematical Life and Times [EPUB ebook] 

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Open a new portal into Shakespeare’s words—and his Renaissance life—with math and numbers as your key.

Shakespeare’s era was abuzz with mathematical progress, from the new concept of “zero” to Galileo’s redraft of the heavens. Now, Rob Eastaway uncovers the many surprising ways math shaped Shakespeare’s plays—and his world—touring astronomy, code-breaking, color theory, navigation, music, sports, and more.


  • How reliable was a pocket sundial?

  • Was math illusionist John Dee the real-life Prospero?

  • How long was a Scottish mile, and what could you buy for a groat?

  • Do Jupiter’s moons have a cameo in Cymbeline?

  • How did ordinary people use numbers day to day?

  • And might Shakespeare have tried that game-changing invention—the pencil?


Full of delights for devotees of both Tudor history and the Bard, Much Ado About Numbers is proof that the arts and sciences have always danced together.

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Contents
Prologue


  • Shakespearean Numbers
    A Playfulness with Numbers
    Huge Numbers
    Much Ado About Nothing

  • School Life
    Math at Grammar School
    The Book of Arithmetic
    The Seven Liberal Arts
    Girls and Math

  • Sport and Games
    Anyone for Tennis? Or Football?
    Hazard and Risk
    Nine Men’s Morris
    Noddy, Primero, and Other Card Games

  • Money
    Shakespearean Currency
    Shakespeare the Accountant?
    Borrowing, Lending, and Interest

  • Measure for Measure
    An Era of Imprecise Measurements
    Length and Distance
    Telling the Time
    Navigation and Maps

  • Music, Rhythm, and Dance
    The Measure of Dance
    Patterns of Verse
    Rhyming Patterns
    Music as a Mathematical Subject
    The Music of the Spheres

  • Astronomy and Astrology
    Telescopes and Horoscopes
    Ruled by the Seven Planets
    The Science of Astronomy
    The New Calendar

  • Colors and the Rainbow
    Rainbows in Shakespeare’s World
    Shakespeare’s Colors
    The Emerging Math of Color
    Putting Ink to Paper
    Writing with a Quill
    Writing with Ink
    Arrival of the Pencil
    Printing and Publishing

  • Mathematics, Magic, and Witchcraft
    John Dee, Mathematician and Magician
    The Book of Magic
    Think of a Number

  • Codes and Conspiracy
    Secret Messages and Chronograms
    Acrostics and Other Hidden Words
    Numerology and Codes
    Shakespeare’s Calculator
  • Appendix: Mathematical Asides
    Tactics for Winning at Three Men’s Morris
    The Pythagorean Octave and Dorian Mode
    Shakespeare, Orange, and Sir Isaac Newton
    Philip Henslowe’s Diary
    Francis Bacon’s Cipher System
    A Shakespeare/Historic Event Timeline
    Timeline of Shakespeare’s Plays and Poems

    Bibliography
    Acknowledgments
    Picture Credits
    Index

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    Rob Eastaway has authored and coauthored several bestselling books that connect math with everyday life, including Why Do Buses Come in Threes? and How Many Socks Make a Pair? He is the director of Maths Inspiration, an interactive lecture program that has reached over 250, 000 teenagers in England the last twenty years.

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