Richard Emerson

Richard Emerson is an Independent Researcher of the Divine Comedy and Medieval Cosmology with undergraduate studies in Art History, Literature History and the Italian Language from 2008, and an ongoing Master’s Degree in Classics at Memoria College with a focus on Ancient and Medieval Philosophy and Theology. His passion and interest for Dante Alighieri comes primarily from a deep personal love of the Divine Comedy, many years of travels and studies in Italy, and from living in Florence for two years in 2013-2014. He has also studied Italian Language at the Scuola Babilonia in Sicily and the Lorenzo di Medici Academia in Florence, and recently completed a course on “Dante e Scienza” at the University of Naples Federico II. Website: richardemerson.awpodcast.com

Interview: Dr. Phil Cary on Dante’s Cosmology, and the 24 Wise People in the Sun. 2 min read

Interview: Dr. Phil Cary on Dante’s Cosmology, and the 24 Wise People in the Sun.

Richard Emerson 3 years ago

Join us for a fascinating conversation with Ivy League Professor Dr. Phil Cary, about the structure of Dante’s Cosmology and the 24 wise people in... Read More

China’s Economic Growth and Space Exploration 1 min read

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China’s Economic Growth and Space Exploration

Richard Emerson 3 years ago

New episode on our AW Podcast Show is here! For more pictures from Mars: https://news.cgtn.com/news/2021-06-27/China-releases-new-visuals-captured-by-Tianwen-1-Mars-probe-11qxWXJMesg/index.html Enjoy!... Read More

Love and Wisdom in Dante’s Paradiso 1 min read

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Love and Wisdom in Dante’s Paradiso

Richard Emerson 4 years ago

From the Sphere of the Sun in Dante’s Divine Comedy – and how Love and Wisdom are expressions of the highest Angelical Forces symbolically in... Read More

Galaxies, galaxies everywhere - as far as the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope can see. This view of nearly 10,000 galaxies is the deepest visible-light image of the cosmos. Called the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, this galaxy-studded view represents a "deep" core sample of the universe, cutting across billions of light-years. The snapshot includes galaxies of various ages, sizes, shapes, and colours. The smallest, reddest galaxies, about 100, may be among the most distant known, existing when the universe was just 800 million years old. The nearest galaxies - the larger, brighter, well-defined spirals and ellipticals - thrived about 1 billion years ago, when the cosmos was 13 billion years old. In vibrant contrast to the rich harvest of classic spiral and elliptical galaxies, there is a zoo of oddball galaxies littering the field. Some look like toothpicks; others like links on a bracelet. A few appear to be interacting. These oddball galaxies chronicle a period when the universe was younger and more chaotic. Order and structure were just beginning to emerge. The Ultra Deep Field observations, taken by the Advanced Camera for Surveys, represent a narrow, deep view of the cosmos. Peering into the Ultra Deep Field is like looking through a 2.5 metre-long soda straw. In ground-based photographs, the patch of sky in which the galaxies reside (just one-tenth the diameter of the full Moon) is largely empty. Located in the constellation Fornax, the region is so empty that only a handful of stars within the Milky Way galaxy can be seen in the image. In this image, blue and green correspond to colours that can be seen by the human eye, such as hot, young, blue stars and the glow of Sun-like stars in the disks of galaxies. Red represents near-infrared light, which is invisible to the human eye, such as the red glow of dust-enshrouded galaxies. The image required 800 exposures taken over the course of 400 Hubble orbits around Earth. The total amount of exposure time was 11.3 days, taken between Sept. 24, 2003 and Jan. 16, 2004.

Redshift of Distant Galaxies might be Gravity 1 min read

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Redshift of Distant Galaxies might be Gravity

Richard Emerson 4 years ago

In the latest episode on the Cosmology & Science Podcast we’re presenting a paper from Scientist Gabe Langhout in the Netherlands, who is laying out... Read More

A Journey with Dante Podcast 1 min read

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A Journey with Dante Podcast

Richard Emerson 4 years ago

The new Journey with Dante Podcast is here! https://anchor.fm/journeywithdante “Dante’s Divine Comedy is a living and glowing story that can help us discover more of... Read More

The Transformation of Purgatory 1 min read

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The Transformation of Purgatory

Richard Emerson 4 years ago

The full 15 episode series on Dante’s Purgatory and the “Metanoia” – change of mind/nous – is completed! Final episode describes the Garden of Eden... Read More