Galileo Galilei has been dead for the better part of four centuries. But he's still pointing fingers at the Museo Galileo in Florence, Italy. When the famous scientist died at the age of 77 in ...

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

He was moved to the main section of the basilica in 1737, but not before three of his fingers and a tooth were removed from his corpse and given pride of place in the Museo Galileo in Florence.

We will talk to him about neutrinos, and we will hear about the reopening of the Institute and Museum of the History of Science in Florence, Italy—now known as the Museo Galileo. First up ...

The reliquary’s new owner consulted Galileo experts about his find, and after the authenticity of its contents had been verified he donated it to the Museo Galileo, which is tucked behind the ...

her visit to the Museo Galileo and, in particular, a painting she finds there labeled “Optical trick.” No wonders are more revealing, perhaps, than the moments between Galileo and Maria Celeste whom ...

Above: Galileo’s “La Billancetta”, in which he describes a new method of measuring the specific gravity of precious metals. Credit: Museo Galileo In 1592, Galileo was appointed professor of ...

Galileo’s could magnify objects twenty times ... This orrery of Venus is a product of the workshops of the Imperiale e Reale Museo di Fisica e Storia Naturale in Florence, and follows the ...

As a founding father in the fields of physics and astronomy, Galileo Galilei is known for countless contributions to science. The Italian thinker stressed a methodical, mathematical approach to ...