Intellectual Historical Research of Science in Literature: The Change of Cosmology and the Idea of Death in Early Modern England

(1)我调查并写了一份从柏拉图到伽利略和开普勒的宇宙学概论的草稿。(2)我仔细阅读和研究了托马斯·哈里奥特（被称为英国伽利略）的手稿，也阅读了与哈里奥特同时代的天文学家格尔伯特、迪格斯和牛顿的著作，以澄清近代早期英国的宇宙学。目前的研究集中在无限和原子论。(3)我读了乔治查普曼的诗，他是亨利珀西圈子的成员，哈里奥特也属于这个圈子。在阅读他的诗歌中，我发现了他们对世界的创造的想法和他们对被创造的世界的态度。我加深了我的研究，阅读乔尔达诺·布鲁诺和马西利奥·菲奇诺的著作，因为珀西圈的成员认真地研究了这些哲学家。在阅读了日本和英国两个学术团体的论文后，我将我的研究结果作为一篇文章发表在《十七世纪英国文学的结局和开端》一书中。

(1) I surveyed and wrote a draft of the conspectus of cosmology from Plato to Galileo and Kepler.(2) I read and examined closely the manuscripts by Thomas Harriot, who is called English Galileo, and also read the writings by Glbert, Digges, and Newton, all of whom are contemporary astronomers of Harriot, in order to clear the cosmology in early modern England. The present research is focused on infinity and atomism.(3) I read the poems by George Chapman, a member of Henry Percy Circle, to which Harriot belonged. In reading his poems, I found their idea of the creation of the world and their attitude to the created world. I deepened my research, reading the writings by Giordano Bruno and Marcilio Ficino as well, because Percy Circle members studied earnestly those philosophers. I pupblished the result of my research as an article in a book Endings and Beginnings in Seventeenth-Century English Literature, after having read papers in two academic societies in Japan and in England.