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Prospero and the renaissance scientist
Author(s) -
Mowat Barbara A.
Publication year - 1981
Publication title -
new directions for teaching and learning
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.192
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1536-0768
pISSN - 0271-0633
DOI - 10.1002/tl.37219810811
Subject(s) - the renaissance , assertion , sociology , art , art history , computer science , programming language
Abstract Interdisciplinary study must proceed with care. The assertion that Shakespeare's Prospero is an example of the Renaissance scientist does violence to the play, and, more damaging, presents a picture of the early scientist‐as‐magician that can distort our understanding of science in the seventeenth century.