Random pic 16 February 2022
Galileo's middle fingers retrieved a hundred years after his death. Was someone was trying to make a point because Galileo didn't have a proper, elaborate funeral, and at the same time trying to taunt the Catholic church for its collection of relics? At the Galileo Museum, Florence https://flic.kr/p/2mRwNQf
(The only other exhibits at the Galileo Museum that belonged to Galileo are two telescopes he gave to the Medici family.)
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