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Booth, Michael Raymond.

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The figure of naught in Elizabethan thought: Shakespeare, Harriot, Marlowe (William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Harriot).

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The figure of naught in Elizabethan thought: Shakespeare, Harriot, Marlowe (William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Harriot)./
Author:	Booth, Michael Raymond.
Description:	243 p.
Notes:	Adviser: William Flesch.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International63-12A.
Subject:	History of Science. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3073873
ISBN:	0493955720

The figure of naught in Elizabethan thought: Shakespeare, Harriot, Marlowe (William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Harriot).
Booth, Michael Raymond.

The figure of naught in Elizabethan thought: Shakespeare, Harriot, Marlowe (William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Harriot). - 243 p.

Adviser: William Flesch.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Brandeis University, 2003.

This dissertation considers a new perspectivalism that was operative in both the science and the literature of Elizabethan England: Thomas Harriot played a part in several major undertakings of his time that had strong perspectival implications even as Shakespeare helped develop the literary exploration of subjective alterity. Shakespeare's perspectivalism entailed a certain self-erasure or evacuation which leaves its trace in his poetics of “nothing.” Harriot's mathematical work includes the innovation of setting algebraic expressions equal to zero. The perspectivalism of both Harriot and Shakespeare—a particular interest in the locatedness of the subject, or in the problematic relation between the subject and space—has, I argue, a trace in their shared interest in the nature of the number zero. Perspective, in the literal sense, has as its enabling structural principle a vanishing point—something whose historical and phenomenological kinship with the number zero has been explored by recent writers, such as Brian Rotman and Frederick Turner, who argue that the rediscovery of zero in early modern Europe, the new and enabling ubiquity of the idea, was continuous with the discovery of the vanishing point. The vanishing point is thus a kind of zero in the visual field—the absent center, a site towards which all measurement diminishes; or, correspondingly, the zero is a vanishing point of the mind, a someplace else, adjacent to measurable, empirical space.

ISBN: 0493955720Subjects--Topical Terms:

896972
History of Science.

The figure of naught in Elizabethan thought: Shakespeare, Harriot, Marlowe (William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Harriot).
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