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Katherine Walker
is an Assistant Professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Her research focuses on early modern science, magic, and drama. She is currently completing a monograph titled Instinct, Knowledge, and Science on the Early Modern Stage. Her second book, Shakespeare and the Practical Arts, examines how useful knowledge in astrology, arithmetic, navigation, and farming are taken up in Shakespeare’s works. You can contact Katherine at katherine.walker@unlv.edu, her website katherine-walker.com, or on Twitter @KatieNWalker.
Hating on star-gazing: Early modern astrology and its critics
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Where do you turn for answers to pressing questions? You might glance at a weather forecast, the latest political polls, a book of theology or philosophy—or flip a coin. People living in the early modern period likewise had their ways…
A guest post by Katherine Walker The Folger houses many impressive texts and manuscripts. So much so, in fact, that it is easy to overlook the library’s equally vast and provocative collection of less illustrious genres. These texts will not…
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