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Galileo Galilei visited by Vincenzo Viviani. Oil on canvas by Tito Lessi, 1892 (Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, Firenze)

Galileo Galilei visited by Vincenzo Viviani. Oil on canvas by Tito Lessi, 1892 (Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, Firenze)

© Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, Firenze / Franca Principe

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Allegory of Mechanics. Detail of the marble floor of the Sala Quadrilatera, a work by G.B. Silvestri after a drawing by Luigi Sabatelli, 19th cent. (Museo di Storia Naturale di Firenze - Sezione di Zoologia "La Specola" - Tribuna di Galileo).

Drawings and calcolations concerning the so-called "theorem of equivalence", aimed at correlating the motion of descent along an inclined plane and the parabolic trajectory of the projectile (BNCF, Ms. Gal. 72, c. 117v).

The phases of the Moon (from Andreas Cellarius, Harmonia macrocosmica seu atlas universalis et novus totius universi creati cosmographiam generalem et novam exhibens, Amstelodami, apud Ioannem Ianssonium, 1661).

The death of Galileo Galilei. Oil on canvas by Giovanni Lodi, 1856 (Accademia Atestina, Modena).

Galileo Galilei, Discorsi e dimostrazioni matematiche intorno a due nuove scienze attenenti alla mecanica et i movimenti locali, in Leida, appresso gli Elsevirii, 1638 - Frontispiece.

Glorification of illustrious Tuscans. Detail with portrait of Galileo Galilei. Fresco by Cecco Bravo, 1636 (Casa Buonarroti, Firenze)

A solid subjected to stress by two different-sized weights (from Galileo Galilei, Discorsi e dimostrazioni matematiche intorno a due nuove scienze attenenti alla mecanica et i movimenti locali, in Leida, appresso gli Elsevirii, 1638).

Galileo Galilei visited by Vincenzo Viviani. Oil on canvas by Tito Lessi, 1892 (Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, Firenze)

Apotheosis of Galileo Galilei. Fresco by Gaspero Martellini, 1839 (Palazzo Toscanelli - State Archives, Pisa)

Galileo refuses the necklace offered him by the Staats General of Holland. Oil on canvas by Demostene Macciò, 1861. Present location of the work unknown. In 1638 Galileo preferred not to accept the gift, fearing it might cause him trouble as it was coming from a Protestant country.

Galileo at Arcetri (Bozzetto). Oil on wood panel by Nicolò Barabino, 1879 (Private collection, Savona).

Galileo in the act of dictating to a young Piarist priest. Oil on canvas by Cesare Vincenzo Cantagalli, 1870 (Property of the Istituto d’Arte ‘Duccio di Buoninsegna’, Siena, curator Fabio Mazzieri, on loan to the Museo Amos Cassioli, Asciano).

Galileo Galilei at his home in Arcetri. Engraving by Giovanni Battista Silvestri (from Taccuino di Giovanni Battista Silvestri architetto fiorentino, Firenze, Stamperia Magheri, 1833-1835, n. I).

Galileo Galilei in old age with his pupils. Fresco by Luigi Sabatelli, 1840.

Drawing of the experiment on how smoke behaves in a vacuum, one of the experiments on vacuums undertaken by Academy of Cimento (BNCF, Ms. Gal. 289, c. 4r)

Mechanisms for esperimenting the propagation of sound in a vacuum, undertaken by Academy of Cimento (from Saggi di naturali esperienze fatte nell'Accademia del Cimento... e descritte dal segretario di essa Accademia, seconda edizione, in Firenze, nella nuova stamperia di Gio. Filippo Cecchi, 1691).

View of Siena, 17th cent. (from Città e castelli del senese, BNCF, Ms. Pal. C.B.4.80, str. 1422 - [G.F. 166], tav. 2).

Galileo Galilei gone blind. Detail of a painting portraying him with Vincenzo Viviani. Oil on canvas by Tito Lessi, 1892 (Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, Firenze).

Inclined plane (Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, Firenze).

Courtyard of the Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena.

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Allegory of Mechanics. Detail of the marble floor of the Sala Quadrilatera, a work by G.B. Silvestri after a drawing by Luigi Sabatelli, 19th cent. (Museo di Storia Naturale di Firenze - Sezione di Zoologia "La Specola" - Tribuna di Galileo).

Drawings and calcolations concerning the so-called "theorem of equivalence", aimed at correlating the motion of descent along an inclined plane and the parabolic trajectory of the projectile (BNCF, Ms. Gal. 72, c. 117v).

The phases of the Moon (from Andreas Cellarius, Harmonia macrocosmica seu atlas universalis et novus totius universi creati cosmographiam generalem et novam exhibens, Amstelodami, apud Ioannem Ianssonium, 1661).

The death of Galileo Galilei. Oil on canvas by Giovanni Lodi, 1856 (Accademia Atestina, Modena).

Galileo Galilei, Discorsi e dimostrazioni matematiche intorno a due nuove scienze attenenti alla mecanica et i movimenti locali, in Leida, appresso gli Elsevirii, 1638 - Frontispiece.

Glorification of illustrious Tuscans. Detail with portrait of Galileo Galilei. Fresco by Cecco Bravo, 1636 (Casa Buonarroti, Firenze)

A solid subjected to stress by two different-sized weights (from Galileo Galilei, Discorsi e dimostrazioni matematiche intorno a due nuove scienze attenenti alla mecanica et i movimenti locali, in Leida, appresso gli Elsevirii, 1638).

Galileo Galilei visited by Vincenzo Viviani. Oil on canvas by Tito Lessi, 1892 (Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, Firenze)

Apotheosis of Galileo Galilei. Fresco by Gaspero Martellini, 1839 (Palazzo Toscanelli - State Archives, Pisa)

Galileo refuses the necklace offered him by the Staats General of Holland. Oil on canvas by Demostene Macciò, 1861. Present location of the work unknown. In 1638 Galileo preferred not to accept the gift, fearing it might cause him trouble as it was coming from a Protestant country.

Galileo at Arcetri (Bozzetto). Oil on wood panel by Nicolò Barabino, 1879 (Private collection, Savona).

Galileo in the act of dictating to a young Piarist priest. Oil on canvas by Cesare Vincenzo Cantagalli, 1870 (Property of the Istituto d’Arte ‘Duccio di Buoninsegna’, Siena, curator Fabio Mazzieri, on loan to the Museo Amos Cassioli, Asciano).

Galileo Galilei at his home in Arcetri. Engraving by Giovanni Battista Silvestri (from Taccuino di Giovanni Battista Silvestri architetto fiorentino, Firenze, Stamperia Magheri, 1833-1835, n. I).

Galileo Galilei in old age with his pupils. Fresco by Luigi Sabatelli, 1840.

Drawing of the experiment on how smoke behaves in a vacuum, one of the experiments on vacuums undertaken by Academy of Cimento (BNCF, Ms. Gal. 289, c. 4r)

Mechanisms for esperimenting the propagation of sound in a vacuum, undertaken by Academy of Cimento (from Saggi di naturali esperienze fatte nell'Accademia del Cimento... e descritte dal segretario di essa Accademia, seconda edizione, in Firenze, nella nuova stamperia di Gio. Filippo Cecchi, 1691).

View of Siena, 17th cent. (from Città e castelli del senese, BNCF, Ms. Pal. C.B.4.80, str. 1422 - [G.F. 166], tav. 2).

Galileo Galilei gone blind. Detail of a painting portraying him with Vincenzo Viviani. Oil on canvas by Tito Lessi, 1892 (Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, Firenze).

Inclined plane (Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, Firenze).

Courtyard of the Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena.