Once, Galileo proved that Dante Alighieri's hell existed through mathmatics. Yup.
Back in 1585, Galileo Galilei was a strayed young man who had just dropped out of Medicine school to study exact sciences against his father's will. And, to compete for a vacancy of mathmatics professor in the University of Pisa, he decided to enter a polemic that moved that century's science: where is hell? And what is it like?
Well, he located Alighieri's version of hell. Which isn't quite the same thing - or is it? - as the traditional Christian hell. Whatever. Using math, Galileo stated that hell had a conic shape and was situated in the deepest part of the center of the Earth and its roof was right below the earth crust, around Jerusalem. Oooookeydokey.
Back in 1585, Galileo Galilei was a strayed young man who had just dropped out of Medicine school to study exact sciences against his father's will. And, to compete for a vacancy of mathmatics professor in the University of Pisa, he decided to enter a polemic that moved that century's science: where is hell? And what is it like?
Well, he located Alighieri's version of hell. Which isn't quite the same thing - or is it? - as the traditional Christian hell. Whatever. Using math, Galileo stated that hell had a conic shape and was situated in the deepest part of the center of the Earth and its roof was right below the earth crust, around Jerusalem. Oooookeydokey.
~Ally