{"id":598,"date":"2010-04-24T15:44:37","date_gmt":"2010-04-24T20:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geraldguild.com\/blog\/?p=598"},"modified":"2010-04-26T10:29:22","modified_gmt":"2010-04-26T15:29:22","slug":"galileos-middle-finger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geraldguild.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/24\/galileos-middle-finger\/","title":{"rendered":"Galileo&#8217;s Middle Finger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/geraldguild.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/IMG_06431.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/geraldguild.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/IMG_06431-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Galileo&#039;s Middle Finger\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/geraldguild.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/IMG_06431-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/geraldguild.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/IMG_06431-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/geraldguild.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/IMG_06431.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to the website at the <a href=\"http:\/\/brunelleschi.imss.fi.it\/museum\/esim.asp?c=404010\">Museo di Storia della Scienza<\/a> Galileo&#8217;s finger was detached by Anton Francesco Gori on March 12, 1737, when Galileo&#8217;s remains were moved from the original grave to the monumental tomb at Basilica di Santa Croce in Florence. The finger became the property of Angelo Maria Bandini and was long exhibited at the Biblioteca Laurenziana. In 1841, the relic was transferred to the just-opened Tribuna di Galileo in the Museo di Fisica e Storia Naturale. <a href=\"http:\/\/geraldguild.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/IMG_0677.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/geraldguild.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/IMG_0677-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Galileo&#039;s Tomb in Santa Croce, Florence, Italy\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-602\" srcset=\"https:\/\/geraldguild.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/IMG_0677-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/geraldguild.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/IMG_0677-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/geraldguild.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/IMG_0677.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>Together with the Medici-Lorraine instruments, it was eventually moved to the Museo di Storia della Scienza in 1927. On the marble base is carved a commemorative inscription by Tommaso Perelli.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the website at the Museo di Storia della Scienza Galileo&#8217;s finger was detached by Anton Francesco Gori on March 12, 1737, when Galileo&#8217;s remains were moved from the original grave to the monumental tomb at Basilica di Santa Croce in Florence. The finger became the property of Angelo Maria Bandini and was long &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/geraldguild.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/24\/galileos-middle-finger\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Galileo&#8217;s Middle Finger&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[33,3],"tags":[94,34,95,35],"class_list":["post-598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","category-science-geology-physics-astronomy-evolutionary-biology-astrobiology","tag-astronomy","tag-galileo","tag-science-geology-physics-astronomy-evolutionary-biology-astrobiology","tag-travel"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3mcUm-9E","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geraldguild.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geraldguild.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geraldguild.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geraldguild.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geraldguild.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=598"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/geraldguild.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":647,"href":"https:\/\/geraldguild.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/598\/revisions\/647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geraldguild.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geraldguild.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geraldguild.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}