Ray Saintonge wrote:
maru dubshinki wrote:
> On 8/15/06, Ray Saintonge <saintonge(a)telus.net> wrote:
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>> maru dubshinki wrote:
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He would.
There's a reason Dante located the exit of Hell and the
mountain of Purgatory in the Southern Hemisphere...
Hmmm! Dante (1265-1321), Galileo (1564-1642). ;-)
Are you accusing me of not knowing my Dante?
"The two poets escape by climbing the ragged fur of Lucifer, passing
through the center of the earth, emerging in the southern hemisphere
just before dawn on Easter Sunday beneath a sky studded with stars."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine_Comedy#Purgatorio
I hadn't thought of it as an accusation, but if you want to take it that
way you have that option.
There is considerable doubt that Dante's reference to the other
hemisphere is to the southern one. That strikes me as inconsistent with
the state of geographical knowledge in the early 14th centure. The
suggestion that Dante's exit from hell would be in Antarctica has not
basis in fact at ball. Where in the text do you find evidence for this.
Antarctica was not discovered until much later.
You're trolling again. He never said /anything/ about Antarctica.
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