Museum: Galileo’s fingers, tooth are found

lasvegassun ^ | Nov. 20, 2009

[JoeProBono]

Two fingers and a tooth removed from Galileo Galilei's corpse in a Florentine basilica in the 18th century and given up for lost have been found again, a Florence museum said Friday.

Paolo Galluzzi, director of the Museum of the History of Science, said three fingers, a vertebra and a tooth were removed by enthusiastic admirers from the astronomer's body in 1737, 95 years after his death, while his corpse was being moved from a storage place to a monumental tomb, opposite the tomb of Michelangelo, in Santa Croce Basilica in Florence.

One of the fingers was recovered soon after, and is now part of the museum's collection, and the vertebra has been kept at the University of Padua, where Galileo had taught for years, according to the museum.

But the tooth and two of the fingers -- the thumb and middle finger -- from the scientist's right hand, were kept by one of the admirers, an Italian marquis, and later kept in a container which was passed on from generation to generation in the same family, Galluzzi told The Associated Press in a telephone interview.

[votemout]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rasputin%27s_penis

[JoeProBono]

That's pickeled PEPPER I believe

[FortWorthPatriot]

Not the finger, unfortunately...

[Daffynition]

But is it art?

[paulycy]

Why give 'em the finger?

[Joe 6-pack]

"O no ! is that Rasputin's pickle pecker?"

It sure as hell ain't Galileo's finger.

[JoeProBono]

Art - no art - whatdayathink?

[SunkenCiv]

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