Peter D. Usher

Professor Emeritus
Profile image taken at the 212th meeting of the American Astronomical Society, St. Louis MO.
Peter Usher
Professor Emeritus
Department Affiliations
Interests
Perturbation theory
Quasars
Science and Shakespeare
Phone
412-735-3914

Three recent publications are especially noteworthy.

(i) My latest book Shakespeare's Knowledge of Astronomy and the Birth of Modern Cosmology (Peter Lang, 2022; https://www.peterlang.com/document/1140539) should be of interest to teachers and anyone studying the History of Astronomy and/or Early Modern literature. Astronomers may be particularly interested in the final chapter.

(ii) My latest iPoster paper delivered to the 241st meeting of the American Astronomical Society on 9 January 2023 is entitled "On a Sixteenth-century Empirical Disproof of Ptolemaic Geocentrism."

(iii) Reasons why Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice is not anti-Semitic may be found in “Tubal, Shylock, and the Myth of Venice.” Pólemos Journal of Law, Literature and Culture 12:2 (2018): 415-428.