More Than Numbers: How Astronomers Named The Planets And Stars
(ArtsJournal)

As the Shakespeare scholar Todd Borlik has pointed out, the triumph of Romanticism throughout Europe by the mid-1800s meant that Shakespeare (though not so much Pope) was seen as a universal rather than particularly English genius. Because of the Bard´s immense cultural appeal during this period, Herschel´s suggested names transcended cultural or nationalistic boundaries and […]