Forma, tamaño y lugar del Infierno de Dante.

by Galileo Galilei, Adriana Arrieta Munguía (Translator)

Con precisión científica Galileo intenta determinar las dimensiones del infierno en estas dos conferencias. Asombra, en verdad, la exactitud lograda. Por medio de análisis geométrico llega a la conclusión de que la arquitectura infernal descrita por la teoría aceptada hasta entonces se colapsaría debido a su propio peso. La teoría rival, por otra parte, también era errónea. Pasa entonces a decir que nadie entiende bien cómo funcionan las estructuras. El tamaño, como sabemos ahora, importa. Un Lucifer gigante no es un hombre de tamaña inmenso, pues aumentar el tamaño de un objeto crea nuevas necesidades y requisitos estructurales.
¿Es un texto científico? Quizás el primero en el sentido moderno...

33 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1587

About the author

Galileo Galilei was a Tuscan (Italian) physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher who played a major role in the Scientific Revolution. His achievements include improvements to the telescope and consequent astronomical observations, and support for Copernicanism. Galileo has been called the "father of modern observational astronomy", the "father of modern physics", the "father of science", and "the Father of Modern Science." The motion of uniformly accelerated objects, taught in nearly all high school and introductory college physics courses, was studied by Galileo as the subject of kinematics. His contributions to observational astronomy include the telescopic confirmation of the phases of Venus, the discovery of the four largest satellites of Jupiter, named the Galilean moons in his honour, and the observation and analysis of sunspots. Galileo also worked in applied science and technology, improving compass design.

Galileo's championing of Copernicanism was controversial within his lifetime. The geocentric view had been dominant since the time of Aristotle, and the controversy engendered by Galileo's presentation of heliocentrism as proven fact resulted in the Catholic Church's prohibiting its advocacy as empirically proven fact, because it was not empirically proven at the time and was contrary to the literal meaning of Scripture. Galileo was eventually forced to recant his heliocentrism and spent the last years of his life under house arrest on orders of the Roman Inquisition.

Reviews

[Dobre Cosmin · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5☆

[Osvaldo AB · Rating 3 out of 5]

No es la conclusión de la forma, tamaño y lugar del Infierno por Galileo, pone en debate dos interpretaciones, la de Antonio Manetti y la de Alessandro Vellutello. Da sus razones, lógicas, interpretativas y muy muy geométricas del porqué una es la correcta.

Una ilustración o esquema mientras se lee por el amor de Lucifer... usar millas en una traducción hispanohablante me parece merece pase directo al 9no círculo del Infierno.

[Zeynep Rade · Rating 5 out of 5]

Dante'nin Cehennemi'ni henüz okumadıysam da bu kitabı bir solukta bitirdim. Belki matematiğe merakımdan belki de öbür dünyaya... Bilemiyorum.
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