Contents
PrologueShakespearean Numbers A Playfulness with Numbers
Huge Numbers
Much Ado About NothingSchool Life Math at Grammar School
The Book of Arithmetic
The Seven Liberal Arts
Girls and MathSport and Games Anyone for Tennis? Or Football?
Hazard and Risk
Nine Men’s Morris
Noddy, Primero, and Other Card GamesMoney Shakespearean Currency
Shakespeare the Accountant?
Borrowing, Lending, and InterestMeasure for Measure An Era of Imprecise Measurements
Length and Distance
Telling the Time
Navigation and MapsMusic, Rhythm, and Dance The Measure of Dance
Patterns of Verse
Rhyming Patterns
Music as a Mathematical Subject
The Music of the SpheresAstronomy and Astrology Telescopes and Horoscopes
Ruled by the Seven Planets
The Science of Astronomy
The New CalendarColors 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 PublishingMathematics, Magic, and Witchcraft John Dee, Mathematician and Magician
The Book of Magic
Think of a NumberCodes and Conspiracy Secret Messages and Chronograms
Acrostics and Other Hidden Words
Numerology and Codes
Shakespeare’s CalculatorAppendix: 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 PoemsBibliography
Acknowledgments
Picture Credits
Index
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