Galileo

Galileo's fingers found

Boing Boing (Free subscription) | yesterday

A jar containing two of Galileo's missing fingers has been located. The jar containing the digits has been missing for more than a century. An individual purchased them at auction and delivered them to the Museum of the History of Science in Florence, Italy. The two fingers will join a third finger (image below) and a tooth that were removed from Galileo's corpse in 1737. The museum plans to display...

• Galileo’s fingers found - Click World News

Monster Mash: LACMA's red ink; Charlie Chaplin museum in Switzerland; Galileo's fingers

Culture Monster (Free subscription) | yesterday

-- 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...

Galileo's missing fingers found in jar

CNN (Free subscription) | yesterday

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.

Galileo’s missing fingers found in jar

ExtraLife (Free subscription) | yesterday

This is kinda awesome. 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. Just don’t mix it up with that jar of pickles int he fridge.

Now He's Really A Secular Saint: Relics Of Galileo's Body Discovered

ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009

"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."...

Intrigued Art Collector Discovers Galileo's Relics

Top ART News (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009

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...

• Galileo's missing bones and tooth discovered - Scotland on Sunday
• Galileo's missing bones and tooth discovered - News Scotsman

Found: Galileo's Missing Reliquary

Defending the Truth (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009

*"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...

• Museum Finds Astronomer Galileo's Lost Body Parts - Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter
• Galileo’s Lost Tooth And Fingers Found - Red Orbit
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Missing Galileo Fingers Discovered

Science - The Post Chronicle (Free subscription) | yesterday

The director of a museum in Florence, Italy, said two fingers taken from Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei in 1737 have been rediscovered....

Galileo Fingers Found

Physics and Physicists (Free subscription) | yesterday

These are just too morbid and gruesome for me. First it was Einstein's brain, now it's Galileo's fingers. It seems that they found his "missing" fingers after more than 100 years. Removing body parts from the corpse was an echo of a practice common with saints, whose digits, tongues and organs were revered by Catholics as relics with sacred powers. There is an irony in Galileo's having been...

The Divine Canine and the Fingers of Galileo

Notebooks - Los Cuadernos de Julia (Free subscription) | yesterday

Back in 2005, when I was contributing to one ezine, I wrote the article about medieval cults and saints that was picked up by several news aggregators and witches' websites. My understanding of what sites existed out there had instantly expanded. Italy is making news this year, starting with two Leonardo da Vinci exhibitions in Manchester and a discovery of Leonardo's portrait over in Italy, a Venice...

Forget Van Gogh's ear - it's Galileo's molar

Italy Magazine (Free subscription) | yesterday

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...

Tribute to Galileo

Hindu (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009

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 ...

'Tis the Season Giveaway: Del Rey & Bantam Spectra

Pat's Fantasy Hotlist (Free subscription) | yesterday

This is our second Holiday mega-giveaway, and it's another good one! Del Rey and Bantam Spectra teamed up for this contest to offer plenty of cool stuff! Their prize pack includes: - A signed copy of China Mieville’s The City & the City ( Canada , USA , Europe ) - A signed copy of John Birmingham’s Without Warning ( Canada , USA , Europe ) - A signed copy of Naomi Novik’s In His...

And yet, it moves

You Don't Say (Free subscription) | yesterday

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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Global Warming Clearinghouse (Free subscription) | yesterday

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Does your kid watch Baby Einstein?

ssonuagarwal | 10/31/2009

Classof1: Company has offered a refund for all Baby Einstein videos. Moms and dads bought them believing in the promo that baby would emerge from the crib a certified genius, if she watched them early. The refund is tacit admission that the videos did not live up to the claim. Kids who watched them consistently have not become geniuses. Infant intellect didn’t get a boost. Susan Linn, director of the...

Download Angels and Demons movie

alison100 | 07/20/2009

Download Angels & Demons movie Cast: Tom Hanks, Ayelet Zurer, Ewan McGregor, Stellan Skarsgård, Pierfrancesco Favino Director: Ron Howard Genres: Crime Thriller, Religious Drama, Thriller When Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) discovers evidence of the resurgence of an ancient secret brotherhood known as the illuminati—the most powerful underground organization in history—he also faces a deadly threat to...

GPS receiver design

ionela | 10/30/2008

GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) is a common name for all of the satellite based positioning systems, which are GPS (Global Positioning System) from US, Galileo from EU, GLONASS from Russia, and CNSS (Compass Navigation Satellite System) from China. GPS is the first and most popular one among these systems.