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Much Ado About Numbers
- Author
- Rob Eastaway
- Narrator
- Liam Gerrard
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish Date
- 3 December 2024
- Run Time
- 5 hours 6 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
● 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?
● 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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- Author
- Rob Eastaway
- Narrator
- Liam Gerrard
- Duration
- 5 hours 6 minutes
- Release Date
- 3 December 2024
- ISBN
- 9798855567762
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Genre
- European history, Literary studies: plays and playwrights, History of mathematics, Philosophy of mathematics
Synopsis
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?● 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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