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Nov 10, Also on display is his tooth. A third finger was already in the museum. In , admirers of Galileo Galilei removed the three fingers, plus the tooth and a vertebra, from his body as it was being moved from a storage place to a monumental tomb — opposite that of Michelangelo, in Santa Croce Basilica in Florence.
The vertebra is kept at the University of Padua, where Galileo taught for many years. Florence is home to many treasures, most of them known worldwide and admired by tourists from all across the globe. But the Tuscan capital city is also the place where hidden gems are located, such as the science museum, which hosts a unique relic.
Near the most famous Uffizi Gallery and Palazzo Vecchio, along the Arno river, there is one of the most important science museums in Italy, the Galileo Museum , a unique place in town where it is possible to learn more about scientific discoveries. After a long period of renovation works, the museum reopened to the public in Galileo Museum features scientific instruments from the Medici era to the most recent times, and displays unique artefacts such as telescopes, objective lens, thermometers, sphere and…a middle finger.
Yes, you read it correctly. Between these terrific and priceless scientific instruments, there is also a middle finger that belonged to one of the greatest scientists of all the times, Galileo Galilei.
In , admirers of Galileo removed three fingers, a tooth and a vertebra from his body, which is now buried in a monumental tomb in the Basilica of Santa Croce in Florence. While the vertebra is kept at the University of Padua, where the scientist taught for several years, the fingers and tooth belonged for many years to the same family.
In case you've always wanted to see two of Galileo's fingers removed from his corpse by admirers , you can at Florence, Italy's Museum of the History of Science. June 8, Two of Galileo's fingers, removed from his corpse by admirers in the 18th century, have gone on display in a Florence museum now named after the astronomer.
The Museum of the History of Science had shut down for two years for renovations. It reopened Tuesday, calling itself The Galileo Museum. Last year, the museum director announced that the thumb and middle finger from Galileo's right hand had turned up at an auction and were recognized as being the fingers of the scientist who died in The digits are now displayed in slender, glass cases. In , admirers of Galileo Galilei removed the three fingers, plus the tooth and a vertebra, from his body as it was being moved from a storage place to a monumental tomb — opposite that of Michelangelo, in Santa Croce Basilica in Florence.
The vertebra is kept at the University of Padua , where Galileo taught for many years. The tooth and the thumb and middle finger were held in a container that was passed from generation to generation in the same family, but in the early 20th century all traces of the relics disappeared. The container turned up at auction late last year, and detailed historical documents and the family's own records helped experts to identify them as the scientist's, according to museum officials.
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