William Shakespeare lived at a remarkable time—a period we now recognize as the first phase of the Scientific Revolution. New ideas were transforming Western thought, the medieval was giving way to the modern, and the work of a few key figures...
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Finalist for the 2015 PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award
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