| Budget Amount *help |
¥4,680,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,080,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
Fiscal Year 2014: ¥1,820,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥420,000)
Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000)
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| Outline of Final Research Achievements |
This study aims to explore how ideas deriving from the astrological view of the universe have lost their original significations, changing their meanings to fit scientific view. The salient feature of this study is to make an extensive use of online databases of Literature Online and Early English Books Online in order to make this study a meaningful research which investigates as many examples of astrological ideas as possible. The study reveals that astrological ideas are differently used by such authors of early modern England as William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Francis Bacon (1561-1626), and Sir Thomas Brown (1605-1682). Shakespeare makes use of these ideas with strong implication of astrology while Bacon with scientific implications, with Brown providing intermediate case between the two. The study makes it clear that in the early modern England conflicts between the astrological and scientific views of the universe had already begun to emerge.
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