My Adventures at the Morgan
Submitted by Reading Room on Tue, 02/26/2019 - 9:11amThis is a guest post by Abraham Samuel Shiff, who studies historical topics and has published on William Shakespeare and William Blake.
When I reached retirement age in 2006, I was free to return to graduate studies full time. I enrolled in the history department of Brooklyn College and also studied at the Graduate Center. In a course on the history of science at the Graduate Center, I was assigned to report on an Elizabethan mathematician who was the first to publish in English on the radical theory of Copernicus.