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Galileo bones to go on display

Updated on 20 November 2009

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Two fingers and a tooth believed to belong to Galileo Galilei have been found and will go on display next year, a museum in Florence has said.

Three fingers and a tooth were taken from the astronomer's body in 1737 and placed in a container.

Paolo Galluzzi, director of the Museum of the History of Science, said a private collector had bought a container at auction containing two fingers and a tooth.

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