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Day 168 -> Galileo's Hell

11/4/2013

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Hell's general scheme by an unknown artist (Image found on Flesh and Blood)
      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.
~Ally
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