17th century Florentine painter, Portrait of Galileo Galilei

INTRODUCTION
- Man and the stars
SECTION I
- The dawn of astronomy: Mesopotamia, Egypt and the Biblical Cosmos
SECTION II
- The cosmos becomes a sphere
SECTION III
- The geometry of the cosmos
SECTION IV
- The skies of Islam
SECTION V
- Evangelisation of the cosmos
SECTION VI
- The Renaissance of Astronomy
SECTION VII
- Galileo: the cosmos through the telescope
SECTION VIII
- From Galileo to Newton

Pair of planetaria: Ptolemaic and Copernican

The middle finger of Galileo’s right hand

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17th century Florentine painter
Portrait of Galileo Galilei, 1640-1645
Florence, Galleria degli Uffizi, inv. 1890, n. 5432 (on deposit at the Domus Galilaeana, Pisa)

Galileo is shown seated, with a telescope. The ring on his finger points to his membership of the Accademia dei Lincei in Rome, founded by Prince Federico Cesi.