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Telegraph | November 21, 2009

Two fingers and a tooth removed from Galileo Galilei's corpse in a Florentine basilica in the 18th century have been found again. Paolo Galluzzi, director of the Museum of the History of Science, said three fingers, a vertebra and a tooth were removed by admirers from the astronomer's body in 1737. ...

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