Not from the stars do I, my judgment pluck, and yet methinks I have astronomy, but not to tell of good or evil luck of plagues of dearths or seasons quality.

Shakespeare, Sonnet 14. Hello and welcome to the Renaissance English History Podcast, a part of the Agora Podcast Network. This is

Episode 84 Astronomy in Renaissance England. So I've had this topic on my list of things I wanted to

explore for several months. And I've been thinking that I'd do it later on in the year,

but the solar eclipse in North America meant that my Facebook feed was filled with astronomy,

and so I decided to move it up a bit. So first, admin, I have three messages for you this week. First,

the Tudor Summit is this weekend, Sunday and Monday, the 3rd and 4th of September. It's a three-day

weekend in the U.S. So that's why I'm doing it then. There's going to be 10 talks from leading

tutor historians, bloggers, podcasters.

It's all online.

It's all free.

Go to tutorsummit.com to learn more and sign up.

Next, I need to thank my patrons and remind you that you still have a day or so to sign up to be my patron on Patreon.

And if you do it this month at the $3 episode level or higher, you will get

a tutor planner as a thank you gift come November. So you get a super awesome limited edition

tutor planner. I'm not printing a gazillion of these, so there's a limited amount. And you also

get great karma from supporting podcasters in history. Hooray. I have amazing patrons. Thank you to Kathy Yergen,

Kendra, Jessica, who also goes by Ambulin, which I absolutely love. I love seeing Ambulin in my

Patreon dashboard. It's awesome. Elizabeth, Cynthia, Judith Schar, Kiva, Amy, Allison, Barbara, Joanne, Kaylee, Kathy, Christine, Annetta, Candice, Rebecca, Al, and Shandor.

You guys are awesome, and I love you. Finally, the Agora podcast of the month. It's August, so it's still

the Cannonball, which is a monthly podcast co-hosted by two

well-educated autodidacts who are attempting to read all of the books in the appendix to Harold

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