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NY Times: Museum’s Display of Remains Reflects Latest Chapter in Galileo’s Legacy.

“Now a particularly enduring Catholic practice is on prominent display in, of all places, Florence’s history of science museum, recently renovated and renamed to honor Galileo: Modern-day supporters of the famous heretic are exhibiting newly recovered bits of his body — three fingers and a gnarly molar sliced from his corpse nearly a century after he died — as if they were the relics of an actual saint.

07/23/10 • 08:57 AM • HistoryReligionScience • No Comments

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