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Tudor technology: Shakespeare and science

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To mark the 450th anniversary of the bard's birth, Jennifer Rampling probes how mathematics and technology shaped his era.

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  1. Jennifer Rampling is a historian of medieval and early-modern science and medicine. An assistant professor of history at Princeton University in New Jersey, she specializes in the history of alchemy.,

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