Chapter 16:  From Medieval to Modern Europe

Dante's The Divine Comedy (Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso), translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, can be found at 

http://www.everypoet.com/archive/poetry/dante/dante_contents.htm

You can find a fuller discussion of Copernicus at 

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/copernicus/

A through discussion of Galileo, his life and scientific work, can be found at 

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/galileo/

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