Museo Galileo, A world-renowned museum dedicated to the influential Florentine physicist, mathematician and astronomer Galileo Galilei, the Museo Galileo exhibits significant historical items ...

Museo Galileo, A world-renowned museum dedicated to the influential Florentine physicist, mathematician and astronomer Galileo Galilei, the Museo Galileo exhibits significant historical items ...

But he's still pointing fingers at the Museo Galileo in Florence, Italy. When the famous scientist died at the age of 77 in 1642, his body was rather unceremoniously dumped in a closet-sized room ...

Today, the Museo Galileo in Florence houses the world’s largest collection of Galileo’s trinkets and tools, including two surviving telescopes that continue to inspire scientific minds.

Dutt’s production is especially remarkable in its moments of wonder — Galileo’s sharing with Maria Celeste of his own childlike wonder at the consequential discovery of the movement of Jupiter’s moons ...

And Cynthia Graber talks with Paolo Galluzzi, director of the newly reopened Museo Galileo, the science museum in Florence, Italy. Plus, we test your knowledge of some recent science in the news.

Galileo was not the first scientist whose corpse was as revered as his corpus. That honor belongs to René Descartes, who was reburied numerous times after his death in 1650, initially to secure ...

Credit: Museo Galileo. Galileo’s Pump. In 1592, Galileo was appointed professor of mathematics at the University of Padua and made frequent trips to the Arsenal ...

Galileo published this groundbreaking observation in his book Sidereus Nuncius (Starry Messenger) in March 1610. Galileo's "cannocchiali" telescopes at the Museo Galileo, Florence.

In 2009, two more fingers, a vertebrae, and a tooth belonging to Galileo were discovered at auction. The spare parts had disappeared in 1905, and not been seen for over 100 years.

In Florence, the newly opened Neuroaesthetics Laboratory at Museo Galileo represents a pioneering achievement as Italy’s first scientific lab located inside a museum.