Comment on `Galileo's discovery of scaling laws,' by mark A. Peterson [Am. J. Phys. 70 (6), 575-580 (2002)]--Galileo and the existence of hell.

Comments on the early lectures of 1588 given by scientist Galileo Galilei on Dante's Inferno and their relation to Galileo's mature theory of the laws of scaling presented in his book 'Two New Sciences,' given by Mark Peterson. Explanation regarding Galileo's reticence on questions of scale; Reference of the center of the earth as the center of the universe in Galileo's 1588 lectures.