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Italy Magazine (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
A private art collector who recently purchased a seventeenth-century box containing unidentified “artefacts” must have had a gruesome surprise when he opened it, for it contained a human tooth, a thumb and a middle finger, later authenticated as having belonged to none other than Galileo Galilei [1564 – 1642] who was condemned by the Vatican for claiming that the Earth moved around...
Top ART News (Free subscription) | 20 hours ago
An Italian marquis was initially in possession of the three and passed them down to subsequent generations of his family. But after 1905, all traces of the items had disappeared. That is, until an intrigued recently purchased a mysterious wooden case at auction and had the contents examined.The wooden container was topped with Galileo's bust and held an 18th-century glass-blown vase inside of it. The...
Culture Monster (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
-- Financial trouble: LACMA loses 23% of its investments in the last fiscal year. One victim is Jeff Koons' dangling train project, which was scheduled to arrive at LACMA in 2011-12, and is now delayed for three more years. (Los...
CNN (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
Two fingers cut from the hand of Italian astronomer Galileo nearly 300 years ago have been rediscovered more than a century after they were last seen, an Italian museum director said Monday.
Defending the Truth (Free subscription) | yesterday
*"Scientists cut the parts -- three fingers, a tooth, and a vertebrae -- from Galileo's body in 1737, almost 100 years after he died... One finger...
Hindu (Free subscription) | yesterday
Four hundred years since Galileo compelled the world to accept the heliocentric view of our solar system, the novelty of art and astronomy understood in a single framework was born. Four hundred years later, music, art and astronomy have come ...
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | yesterday
"A tooth and two fingers of Galileo Galilei, the 17th century Italian astronomer, physicist, inventor and mathematician, have re-emerged from a lost wooden case, Florence's authorities [have] announced."...
The Eagle World (Free subscription) | yesterday
ROME -- 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 and will soon be put on display, an Italian museum director said last week.Three fingers, a ...
The Telegraph India (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
London, Nov. 21: Two fingers and a tooth removed from Galileo Galilei's corpse in a Florentine basilica in the 18th century have been found again.
Jungle Trader (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
Via IOL : "An art collector has found a tooth, thumb and finger of the renowned Italian scientist Galileo Galilei who died in the 17th century, Florence's History of Science museum announced on Friday."
NYDailyNews (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
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 and will soon be put on display.
Market Wire (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
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Global Warming Clearinghouse (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
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You Don't Say (Free subscription) | 9 hours ago
By coincidence, the weekend brought the 150th anniversary of the publication of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species and the publication of an Associated Press article, deservedly mocked at HeadsUp: The Blog , on claims that an analysis of letters on the Shroud of Turin establishes that it dates from the first century and is not a medieval forgery. A century and a half of science have confirmed...
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