Re: Info request-European Physics/science Museums

[Richard Langer <rlanger@slps.k12.mo.us>]

another (faster for me) URL is
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/galileo/finger.html

this address was mentioned previously

At 09:08 AM 6/5/96 +0000, you wrote:
> Paul Camp wrote:
> > To what end was it removed? (This is too weird -- I plan to take all
> > my appendages to the grave).
> >
> > > At 11:13 AM 6/5/96 EST, Paul Camp wrote:
> > > > Galileo's middle finger???
> > >
> > > Yes  -  it was removed by a surgeon after his death.  You can take a
look at
> > > it via the JPL Galileo web site if you're not up for a trip to Italy!  I
> > > forget the URL, but you can find it from the top via  www.jpl.nasa.gov
> > > George Spagna
>
>
> Here is the link to the museum in Florence. It is there, I saw it in 1990.
> http://galileo.imss.firenze.it/museo/4/eiv10.html
> Enjoy.
> -- 
> Richard Goode
> Physics Teacher
> Porterville High School
>
> 								"Man does not cease to play because he grows old; Man grows 
> 													old because he ceases to play."
Richard M. Langer
Physics Teacher
Gateway High School,
5101 McRee Ave.
St. Louis, MO 63110
rlanger@dtd1.slps.k12.mo.us