In a forthcoming book, Mark Peterson, a physics professor at Mount Holyoke College, argues that a young Galileo Galilei laid the groundwork for his theoretical physics when he called into question the accepted measurements of Dante’s hell in the Inferno . The Boston Globe has more here .
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