Theoretical physics exists because Dante's Inferno doesn't

Did Galileo get his ideas from disproving the measurements of Dante's Inferno? Gustave Dore's illustrations for Dante's Divine Comedy. In 1588, when Galileo was a 24-year-old unknown, a medical school dropout, he was invited to deliver a couple of lectures on Dante's "Divine Comedy." Many in Galileo's audience would have been shocked, even dismayed, to [...]