Two fingers and a tooth removed from Galileo Galilei’s corpse in the 18th century and given up for lost have been found again and will soon be put on display, a Florence museum said Friday. Paolo Galluzzi, director of the Museum of the History of Science, said the body parts were removed by enthusiastic admirers in 1737, 95 years after the death of Galileo, left, when his corpse was being moved to Santa Croce Basilica in Florence. The relics recently turned up at auction, were purchased by a private collector and determined by cultural officials to be Galileo’s.

Source: nytimes.com
By: The Associated press