Galileo’s lost fingers, tooth found at auction
By Associated Press
Saturday, November 21, 2009 -
Saturday, November 21, 2009 -
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ShareROME - 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, a Florence museum said yesterday.
Three fingers, a vertebra and a tooth were removed by admirers in 1737, some 95 years after his death.
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