Q: For the most part scholars have thought that Shakespeare was largely unaware of the groundbreaking science of his day. What has been said? On what grounds do they make this conclusion? Shakespeare doesn't talk about the so-called "new philosophy," or the new ideas of Copernicus and later Galileo It is not mentioned overtly, like it is when you read John Donne or John Milton. Which of these sentences from the selection explain why most scholars believe that Shakespeare was largely unaware of the groundbreaking science of his day? A In "King Lear,"they talk about eclipses of the Sun and A Moon. B interesting discoveries were happening. Shakespeare lived and worked when some very B So, Claudius happens to have the same name as C Claudius Ptolemy, the ancient Greek mathematician and C astronomer who we now associate most closely with the geo-centric Ptolemaic worldview. D philosophy,"or the new ideas of Copernicus and later Shakespeare doesn't talk about the so-called "new Galileo.