The equations of medieval cosmology

Details The equations of medieval cosmology The equations of medieval cosmology

2008-12-23

arxiv.org/abs/0812.4378v1

New Astronomy 14 (2009), pp. 347-348

Physics

History and Philosophy of Physics

3 pages, 1 figure

Scientific paper

10.1016/j.newast.2008.10.005

In Dantean cosmography the Universe is described as a series of concentric spheres with all the known planets embedded in their rotation motion, the Earth located at the centre and Lucifer at the centre of the Earth. Beyond these "celestial spheres", Dante represents the "angelic choirs" as other nine spheres surrounding God. The rotation velocity increases with decreasing distance from God, that is with increasing Power (Virtu'). We show that, adding Power as an additional fourth dimension to space, the modern equations governing the expansion of a closed Universe (i. e. with the density parameter \Omega_0>1) in the space-time, can be applied to the medieval Universe as imaged by Dante in his Divine Comedy. In this representation the Cosmos acquires a unique description and Lucifer is not located at the centre of the hyperspheres.

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