First Links—5.26.15

Planets, Priests, and a Persistent Myth
Stephen Barr and Dermott Mullan, Wall Street Journal

Dante Turns Seven Hundred and Fifty
John Kleiner, The New Yorker

Protestant Reformer Martin Luther’s 16th Century Notes Found
BBC News

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