Dante’s 3-Sphere Universe

Stephen Leon Lipscomb
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Stephen Leon Lipscomb: University of Mary Washington

Chapter Chapter 2 in Art Meets Mathematics in the Fourth Dimension, 2014, pp 11-24 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Dante Alighieri (1265–1321) AD wrote what is now considered one of the greatest works of world literature, the Divine Comedy — an allegorical vision of Christian afterlife. The focus here is a description of a universe that includes the Empyrean, which, among Christian poets, is the abode of God or the firmament. Dante constructs the Empyrean as a mirror image of the classical Aristotle universe, and then “glues their 2-sphere boundaries” to form a 3-sphere. We essentially follow the article Dante and the 3-sphere by Mark Peterson, American Journal of Physics 47 (1979).

Keywords: Extra Dimension; Celestial Body; Local Glue; Solid Ball; Rock Displacement (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-06254-9_2

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