From D. A. Latter
Shakespeare knew all about the annual tilt of the Earth
(Feedback, 4 April).
In Julius Caesar (Act 2, Scene 1), he writes:
Decius Brutus: Here lies the east: doth not the day break here?
Casca: No
Cinna: O, pardon, sir, it doth; and yon grey lines
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That fret the clouds are messengers of day.
Casca: You shall confess that you are both deceived.
Here, as I point my sword, the sun arises,
Which is a great way growing on the south,
Weighing the youthful season of the year.
Some two months hence up higher towards the north
He first present his fire; and the high east
Stands, as the Capitol, directly here.
Farnham, Surrey
