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Galileo's middle finger is on display at an Italian museum
short by Gaurav Shroff / on Thursday, 15 February, 2018
Born on February 15, 1564, Galileo Galilei was an Italian astronomer who pioneered heliocentrism, defying the Vatican view that Earth was the centre of the Universe. Nearly a century after his death, three fingers, along with a vertebra and a tooth, were removed from his remains with the middle finger currently on display at a museum in Florence, Italy.
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