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The middle finger from the right hand of Italian astronomer Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) is a secular relic in the collection of the Museo Galileo in Florence, Italy.The finger was removed from his body after his death and is encased in a gilded glass egg.

Pietro Tenerani: Psyche in a Feint (1869)

Woodblock carving of sea wormwood (left) used to print a page (right) of a botany book, European, c. 1560’s. [6666x4992]

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Galileo Galilei, February 15, 1564 / 2019

(image: Galileo Galilei, Sidereus nuncius, facsimile of the 1610 edition)

by Elsa Olsson/Fevernest, 2019

L'angelo, la morte e il diavolo (detail), Roberto Ferri, 2018.

Art by Bill Crisafi

“I emerge Monstrous from the Monster, my skin the dragon-flesh of nightmares.”

— Catherynne M. Valente, The Labyrinth (via monstress)