Physics and Optics in Dante’s Divine Comedy
Journal: Mechanics, Materials Science & Engineering Journal (Vol.3, No. 1)Publication Date: 2016-03-11
Authors : Amelia Carolina Sparavigna;
Page : 1-1
Keywords : Medieval Science; History of Science; History of Optics;
Abstract
The Divine Comedy is a poem of Dante Alighieri representing, allegorically, the journey of a soul towards God, in the framework of Dante’s metaphysics of the divine light. However, besides metaphysics, we can find in the poem several passages concerning the natural phenomena. Here we discuss some them, in order to investigate Dante’s knowledge of Physics and, in particular, of Optics.
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