Two fingers and teeth Galileo Galilei who was taken from the body in the basilica of Florence in the 18th century and missing have been found again, an Italian museum director said. Three fingers, a spine and teeth removed from the body by admirers’ astronomers in 1737, 95 years after his death. At that time the body was moved from the storage to the tomb, turned to Michelangelo in the Basilica of Santa Croce in Florence.
One of the fingers is now part of the collection of the History of Science Museum, in Florence. The spine has been stored at the University of Padua, where Galileo taught for many years. But the teeth and two fingers of his right hand a scientist - the thumb and middle finger - the one saved by an admirer of the Marquis left Italy for generations in the same family, said Paolo Galluzzi, director of the museum. "But as time passes, the more offspring do not know what is actually in the container," and the family sold it, Galluzzi said.
In 1905, all traces of relics have disappeared, and prominent scholars hypothesize that a single specimen is definitely missing, the museum said in a statement. Container where the finger are had recently appeared at auction and was bought by a private collector, who attracted by the content but not sure is the Relic of Galileo. Finally, the buyer contacted Galluzzi Florence and other cultural experts, who use a detailed historical documents, as well as documentation from families that have had it for so long, to conclude that the fingers and teeth are Galileo, said museum director. Relics are enclosed in a vase 18th century, and the top of a wooden statue of Galileo, the museum said.
Galileo, who died in 1642, condemned by the Vatican for saying the earth revolved around the sun. Church teaching at the time argued that the earth was the center of the universe. In the early 1990s, Pope John Paul II rehabilitates and declares the church was wrong.
One of the fingers is now part of the collection of the History of Science Museum, in Florence. The spine has been stored at the University of Padua, where Galileo taught for many years. But the teeth and two fingers of his right hand a scientist - the thumb and middle finger - the one saved by an admirer of the Marquis left Italy for generations in the same family, said Paolo Galluzzi, director of the museum. "But as time passes, the more offspring do not know what is actually in the container," and the family sold it, Galluzzi said.
In 1905, all traces of relics have disappeared, and prominent scholars hypothesize that a single specimen is definitely missing, the museum said in a statement. Container where the finger are had recently appeared at auction and was bought by a private collector, who attracted by the content but not sure is the Relic of Galileo. Finally, the buyer contacted Galluzzi Florence and other cultural experts, who use a detailed historical documents, as well as documentation from families that have had it for so long, to conclude that the fingers and teeth are Galileo, said museum director. Relics are enclosed in a vase 18th century, and the top of a wooden statue of Galileo, the museum said.
Galileo, who died in 1642, condemned by the Vatican for saying the earth revolved around the sun. Church teaching at the time argued that the earth was the center of the universe. In the early 1990s, Pope John Paul II rehabilitates and declares the church was wrong.
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