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

(1)我调查并撰写了从柏拉图到伽利略和开普勒的宇宙学概论草稿。(2)我仔细阅读和研究了被称为英国伽利略的托马斯·哈里奥特的手稿，也阅读了格尔伯特、迪吉斯和牛顿的著作，他们都是哈里奥特的同时代天文学家，以澄清近代英国的宇宙学。阅读了哈里奥特所属亨利·珀西圈子成员乔治·查普曼的诗歌。在阅读他的诗歌时，我发现了他们对创造世界的看法和对创造世界的态度。我深化了我的研究，也阅读了乔丹诺·布鲁诺和马西里奥·菲奇诺的著作，因为珀西圈子的成员认真研究了这些哲学家。在读过日本和英国两个学术团体的论文后，我把我的研究成果作为一篇文章写在了一本名为《十七世纪英国文学的结尾与开端》的书中。

(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.