Re: Galileo painting

[David Seely <dseely@ALPHA.ALBION.EDU>]

> Over the years I kept a collection of digitized images of great scientists.
> My students loves it... or they like my enthousiam while describing them.
>
> In Florence, the IMSS gives a small picture of a wall painting (fresca) of
> Galileo demonstrating the inclined plane. Does anyone have an higher
> resolution image ?
>
> I've try several time to contact them without success.


I don't know if it has been mentioned, but Rice University maintains the
'Galileo Project', a hypertext source of info on the life and work of
Galileo.  The URL is

        http://es.rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Galileo/

The site has a lot of images, though I do not know if it has the one you
seek. 

Dave Seely
Department of Physics
Albion College
Albion, MI  49224