Dante Reaction paper
In his lecture, Professor Mark Dantmore says that Purgatorio is "almost science fiction" to people of the time it was written. I find it very interesting that a book in the Divine Comedy, something the Catholics take as truth, might be described this way. Of course Purgatorio is a book largely dealing with Christian themes, but the actual setup was meticulously constructed to agree with scientific knowledge of the time. In fact, it was demonstrated in the lecture that the descriptions of the position of the sun and other heavenly bodies at different times of day were accurate. The reason he Dante's model worked so w
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Some common words found in the essay are:
Divine Comedy, Comedy Catholics, Southern Hemisphere, Italy Relating, Dantmore Purgatorio, Reaction Paper, Northern Hemisphere, Rome Dante, southern hemisphere, human reason, dim light, divine light, divine comedy, exactly opposite, position sun,
Approximate Word count = 437
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)
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