Category: Tudor History

Shakespeare’s Apothecary

Among those specialised subjects that William Shakespeare had some unusual interest in is the medical, herbal and anatomical knowledge which would only have been of

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The Month of February

At this rather bleak time of the agricultural year many hedges, gates, walls and fences would be inspected for damage and repaired. The arable fields

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Shakespeare’s Cosmology:

Although the Greek philosopher Aristarchus Samius (310 BC), among several others hypothesised a heliocentric model for the known universe, the majority of Greek philosophers, including

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