March 05, 2009
Galileo's finger goes on display in Italy

How neat!

The finger was removed when the astronomer's body when it was exhumed from his unconsecrated grave and transferred to a mausoleum in a Florentine church in 1737. It is usually on display at Florence's Museum of the History of Science.
Posted by Ellen at March 05, 2009 08:54 PM
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