Reading Clues in the Sky

摘要

While in medical school, I made a long journey from sunny California to a conference in frigid Montreal. My budget prevented me from attending the conference's night on the town event, so I opted for a neighborhood bookstore. Splurging on a hot chocolate, I settled down in the warmest spot in the store to read an article in Sky & Telescope magazine about a star in Shakespeare's Hamlet . Over the years, its author, Donald Olson, with colleagues and students, has published many Sky & Telescope articles that use astronomy to explore mysteries from history, art, and literature. Olson (a physicist at Texas State University) has now collected these and additional pieces in Celestial Sleuth.