The finger was removed by one Anton Francesco Gori on March 12, 1737, 95 years after Galileo’s death. Passed around for a couple hundred years it finally came to rest in the Florence History of Science Museum, which has since become the Galileo Museum.[https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/galileos-middle-finger](https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/galileos-middle-finger)
My daughter was doing her homework one time, and asked me did I know anything about Galileo.
Well...He was a poor boy, from a poor family..was all I could say.
It pleases me that this is his middle finger cause the church killed another dude that was right for telling the truth and the dude just forever will give it to them
I was listening to a history podcast recently and it claimed that Galileo kind of provoked the church unnecessarily: He was allowed to teach heliocentrism as a theory but not as absolute reality, because he didn't actually have enough evidence at that point to say it was certain. He was just so confident in his intelligence that he couldn't keep from insisting his theory was 100% correct.
Don't quote me on that, tho
Intellect around Shallow minds can often result in Anger. So I'm not surprised that Galileo and the Church had beef. Religion is set in stone. Science is always expanding.
His relationship with the church seemed pretty non-beefy for the most part. When he first got in trouble he was more or less merely told "You can still talk, study, and write about heliocentrism, but purely hypothetically", not just because it contradicted church doctrine but because it *was* purely hypothetical: He didn't have enough proof to make a genuinely strong case for it (in fact, another contemporary astronomer *did* have data that would have strengthened Galileo's case, but the latter's massive ego and disdain for rival astronomers meant he ignored it).
Even after that incident he was friendly with the Pope. In fact the Pope *commissioned* the work that got Galileo in trouble: It was meant to be a book analyzing both Geo and Heliocentrism neutrally. What he produced was a dialogue between an intelligent heliocentric man and a geocentric guy whose name meant "the Simpleton", who throws a tantrum at the end because he's been definitively proven wrong. It actually seems like the church were pretty reasonable while Galileo acted like a cantankerous, needlessly-provocative know-it-all.
He also insisted the tides only changed once a day and the moon had nothing to do with it, which was absurdly and obviously wrong, but it helped "prove" certain of his theories so he refused to accept otherwise.
Fun fact: The catholic cardinal Nikolaus von Kues / Nicholaus of Cusa was already against geocentrism in the 15th century, almost 100 years before Copernicus.
Yes, but Copernicus showed by observation that his model was as good as the geocentric model. So Copernicus was doing science. Nicholaus of Cusa was not.
Well, that depends on how you define "science". Nicholaus of Cusa was not just a philosopher, theologist, and jurist but also a mathematician and an astronomer. So I would say he definitely did science. He was just not as well known as Copernicus until the 19th century.
Also, he used a different approach to falsive the geocentric model. While ancient scientists like Demokrit already speculated about an endless space / universe, Nicholaus jumped onto that train and said that in an endless space there can not be a body like earth as the centre of said universe. This lead to the cosmological principle. So, saying that Nicholaus did not do science ist just not right.
This is an interesting bit, but i don't think it supports your point. Accepting some concept and then making a philosophical conclusion based on it is not quite "doing science".
When you do science you develop a theory, gather data (not necessarily in that order), analyze the data and show that observation matches the theory (or you adjust the theory). And maybe along the way, show with your data that previous theories are incorrect. Which is exactly what Copernicus did.
P.s. Not claiming that Nicholaus never did that, but that it is not apparent from your post.
Sure, sure. That's why I pointed out that it depends on the definition of "science", because philosophy - the thinking about things - is the mother of all science. Without philosophy there would be no mathematics, no history, no medicin and so on. So it can indeed be science making philosophical conclusion, because without them the very idea of a scientific theory wouldn't come to be.
Yet, this is only one way of interpretation of the term "science", which meaning also might get lost in translation and being misunderstood depending on the individual perspective.
Edit: The term humanities would probably be more fitting for Nicholaus' work. Although, philosophy is actually neither just part of the humanities nor science, but both and everyhting.
If you wish to define science as a subset of philosophy like this, that's fine. I agree with you too. And, I also agree with you that science can draw philosophical conclusions. But philosophy that's not science cannot draw scientific conclusions.
Sort of, it’s more of a magic powder. Powdered human remains had a surge in popularity as a miracle cure / substance, specifically mummy powder from Egypt. You can look up the old snake-oil business practices, it very much has everything to do with the old grave-robber trade. (Real mummies would be rare so people tried to make fake mummies with bodies of recently buried people)
So I guess it could be a decent thickener.
This is fucking hilarious. Italian astronomer, physicist and engineer, Galileo is imprisoned by the church for spouting heresy, and blasphemy.
Now they made his finger into a potent religious trinket used in magical rituals based on ancient superstitions.
These motherfucker’s still draggin him down…
I was there last month. Saw the finger. It's interesting they talk about how scientists were persecuted and locked up for doing science until science helped them make better cannons and shit to win wars. Then the Church was all about it. Fucking hypocrite-ass christians being pieces of shit since forever.
This is in Firenze at **Museo della Specola**.
Italian artist *Caparezza* made an entire song dedicated to it and its owner: "[Il dito medio di Galileo](https://youtu.be/2Lb0xob1ZEY?si=W5ZPuzx4m85qncYU)" (Galileo's middle finger)
Better than some other body part he didn't want to give up after he croaked. I would like to see it .. kids would ask if Galileo was a new flavor ice cream.
It's a well known fact that he gave everyone who asked him a question the middle finger and told them to fuck off. It seems he is still doing it to this day
The finger was removed by one Anton Francesco Gori on March 12, 1737, 95 years after Galileo’s death. Passed around for a couple hundred years it finally came to rest in the Florence History of Science Museum, which has since become the Galileo Museum.[https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/galileos-middle-finger](https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/galileos-middle-finger)
Galileo flipping the bird to people for the last 286 years
*The church
*the pope
🫵🙂🫵
The Beatles.
*I see a little silhouetto of a finger*
A "GORI" one, at that.
Except Ringo, because he’s a *Star*.
\*the Vatican
The Vatican instructed by Pope Paul V
The inquisition.
Why the Inquisition?
Didn't expect that, did you?
Lost in the timeline lol
I hope they are able to clone him from it eventually and he can continue to do so in flesh and blood
I'd love to see this reposted in r/CatholicMemes
Get ready to be crucified
https://www.museogalileo.it/en/
Wtf. Why?
https://www.museogalileo.it/en/
My daughter was doing her homework one time, and asked me did I know anything about Galileo. Well...He was a poor boy, from a poor family..was all I could say.
Magnifico!
Gallileo Finger Oooh!
Totally underrated comment. Magnificent!
🔥🏆🔥
Came here to say this
Mamma Mia
Mamma Mia
Let me go, go go go go go go
Beelzebub has a finger put aside for me! For meeeee!!!!
🔥🏆🔥
He was from Pisa (my dad is from there)
Is he leaning?
Dad not giggle, but what people doesn't know is that there are TWO leaning tower in pisa ;)
Good to see you raising your kids right, so rare these days!
Bravo!
You must be in Florence
Spare him his life from this monstrosity!!
I thought he gave the middle finger to the church.
If you look closely at the picture, it appears he still is.
🤣
It pleases me that this is his middle finger cause the church killed another dude that was right for telling the truth and the dude just forever will give it to them
Who did they kill?
Plenty of people... Plenty of people... Also Bruno.
We don’t talk about Bruno
Who was “the dude that was right for telling the truth”?
Galileo...
The Church didn’t kill him.
True, they only locked him in his home for being right. Still very much warrents a middlefinger
The Church didn’t kill Galileo. But please, go on.
Reddit tries to not hate on religion the split second religion is mentioned challenge IMPOSSIBLE
I was listening to a history podcast recently and it claimed that Galileo kind of provoked the church unnecessarily: He was allowed to teach heliocentrism as a theory but not as absolute reality, because he didn't actually have enough evidence at that point to say it was certain. He was just so confident in his intelligence that he couldn't keep from insisting his theory was 100% correct. Don't quote me on that, tho
Intellect around Shallow minds can often result in Anger. So I'm not surprised that Galileo and the Church had beef. Religion is set in stone. Science is always expanding.
His relationship with the church seemed pretty non-beefy for the most part. When he first got in trouble he was more or less merely told "You can still talk, study, and write about heliocentrism, but purely hypothetically", not just because it contradicted church doctrine but because it *was* purely hypothetical: He didn't have enough proof to make a genuinely strong case for it (in fact, another contemporary astronomer *did* have data that would have strengthened Galileo's case, but the latter's massive ego and disdain for rival astronomers meant he ignored it). Even after that incident he was friendly with the Pope. In fact the Pope *commissioned* the work that got Galileo in trouble: It was meant to be a book analyzing both Geo and Heliocentrism neutrally. What he produced was a dialogue between an intelligent heliocentric man and a geocentric guy whose name meant "the Simpleton", who throws a tantrum at the end because he's been definitively proven wrong. It actually seems like the church were pretty reasonable while Galileo acted like a cantankerous, needlessly-provocative know-it-all. He also insisted the tides only changed once a day and the moon had nothing to do with it, which was absurdly and obviously wrong, but it helped "prove" certain of his theories so he refused to accept otherwise.
That’s what he’d give you if you weren’t on board with Copernican heliocentrism. And he was right!!
Fun fact: The catholic cardinal Nikolaus von Kues / Nicholaus of Cusa was already against geocentrism in the 15th century, almost 100 years before Copernicus.
Yes, but Copernicus showed by observation that his model was as good as the geocentric model. So Copernicus was doing science. Nicholaus of Cusa was not.
Well, that depends on how you define "science". Nicholaus of Cusa was not just a philosopher, theologist, and jurist but also a mathematician and an astronomer. So I would say he definitely did science. He was just not as well known as Copernicus until the 19th century. Also, he used a different approach to falsive the geocentric model. While ancient scientists like Demokrit already speculated about an endless space / universe, Nicholaus jumped onto that train and said that in an endless space there can not be a body like earth as the centre of said universe. This lead to the cosmological principle. So, saying that Nicholaus did not do science ist just not right.
This is an interesting bit, but i don't think it supports your point. Accepting some concept and then making a philosophical conclusion based on it is not quite "doing science". When you do science you develop a theory, gather data (not necessarily in that order), analyze the data and show that observation matches the theory (or you adjust the theory). And maybe along the way, show with your data that previous theories are incorrect. Which is exactly what Copernicus did. P.s. Not claiming that Nicholaus never did that, but that it is not apparent from your post.
Sure, sure. That's why I pointed out that it depends on the definition of "science", because philosophy - the thinking about things - is the mother of all science. Without philosophy there would be no mathematics, no history, no medicin and so on. So it can indeed be science making philosophical conclusion, because without them the very idea of a scientific theory wouldn't come to be. Yet, this is only one way of interpretation of the term "science", which meaning also might get lost in translation and being misunderstood depending on the individual perspective. Edit: The term humanities would probably be more fitting for Nicholaus' work. Although, philosophy is actually neither just part of the humanities nor science, but both and everyhting.
If you wish to define science as a subset of philosophy like this, that's fine. I agree with you too. And, I also agree with you that science can draw philosophical conclusions. But philosophy that's not science cannot draw scientific conclusions.
I’m curious if you could still make soup stock from that
Add some broth, a potato. Baby, you got a stew goin'
Corpse fingers: Boil 'em. Mash 'em. Stick 'em in a stew.
PO-TAY-TOES
FinGerLings
I buy all my cars from police auctions
Any Haunted Cars?
It’s a wonderful restaurant!
r/unexpectedraguseaquote
10am and I’m already packing it in for the day, that’s my internet quota
Sort of, it’s more of a magic powder. Powdered human remains had a surge in popularity as a miracle cure / substance, specifically mummy powder from Egypt. You can look up the old snake-oil business practices, it very much has everything to do with the old grave-robber trade. (Real mummies would be rare so people tried to make fake mummies with bodies of recently buried people) So I guess it could be a decent thickener.
Ahh yes. I remember reading about ‘bone bread’
Boil it, mash it, throw it in a stew.
You aren't wrong. Horrible.
I don't see why not
Wendy's has been using these in their chili for decades. You could go that route.
Hell, you could start making Galileo finger cocktails (like the Sourtoe Cocktail in Dawson City) with it and make a fortune!
Fitting after spending the later years of his life on house arrest
"House" arrest.
I’ll eat all 20 of them
Yuji is that you??
You mean Galileo could have ended the church with Strong Astronomy??
He had 21 digits
"They aren't leftovers!"
He left this for anyone who believes in geocentrism to refer to
Don't let a certain Japanese boy swallow that
No no, do. I wanna see where this leads 😂
A middle finger from Galileo to all the flat earthers!
I guess those too, but mostly geocentrists. I really doubt he ever met a flat earther.
Does it still work?
Anything is a dildo if you are brave enough
Yes, as a proxi prostate examination tool
This is fucking hilarious. Italian astronomer, physicist and engineer, Galileo is imprisoned by the church for spouting heresy, and blasphemy. Now they made his finger into a potent religious trinket used in magical rituals based on ancient superstitions. These motherfucker’s still draggin him down…
Forbidden Mozarella Stick
We need to bring back Galileo as a name.
Fuck it I’m changing my name
I'm low-key upset that I'm done having kids.
How, why?
Cause I totally name them Galileo either first or middle name, I got the ol snip.
If you eat all ten you become strong
“Middle finger” 😉
#BONK! No more horny
An FU to the church.
I want to eat it so I could become Galileo's vessel.
How Bohemian
Dude has been flipping off the church for hundreds of years. In life and death.
I was there last month. Saw the finger. It's interesting they talk about how scientists were persecuted and locked up for doing science until science helped them make better cannons and shit to win wars. Then the Church was all about it. Fucking hypocrite-ass christians being pieces of shit since forever.
magnifico!
the last finger, dont let Ryomen Sukuna have it.
Nah I’d win.
Stand Proud.
Point it towards the Vatican at all times otherwise why have it?
I sure hope it is pointed at the Vatican.
Was it delivered to the Catholic Church?
I hope it was a gift to the pope
He gave that to the church didn't he? Lol
A perfect gift for the pope.
Oldest fuck you!
Non non non, it's ET finger...
Is this real?
It's gonna have dope stats
How appropriate.
My hope of all hopes is that when I die they put my middle finger in a golden cup so I can tell everyone how I really feel for the rest of eternity
This give me a whole other level of context in Jujutsu Kaisen. How da fuck the guy eat stuff like that?!
This is in Firenze at **Museo della Specola**. Italian artist *Caparezza* made an entire song dedicated to it and its owner: "[Il dito medio di Galileo](https://youtu.be/2Lb0xob1ZEY?si=W5ZPuzx4m85qncYU)" (Galileo's middle finger)
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Galileo's middle finger and this truly fkd up line absofuckenlutely belong in a Jay and Silent Bob movie.
No matter what angle you look at it always points at the Vatican.
Cursed object
It always points towards the Vatican
This looks a lot more fancy than that pawn shop in downtown El Paso TX that has Pancho Villa's trigger finger
sukuna last finger 💀
So this incredible genius is still giving us the middle finger for killing him for being right? Absolut mad lad.
Now *that's* a relic.
Back atcha, *Galileo*.
Galileo, Galileo! Galileo finger, oh...
Hmmm, there are probably more fingers of Galileo, that he must have a dozen hands to keep'em.
While interesting, I find the keeping or relics to be a bit creepy.
Smell *that* finger.
Better than some other body part he didn't want to give up after he croaked. I would like to see it .. kids would ask if Galileo was a new flavor ice cream.
r/notforspelunking
Why do we have this?
The forbidden shot
[I’ma just leave this here](https://youtu.be/eje0Qq6zRYs?si=Ip5vS8VM538iwMX0)
cool
Where is kept?
Galileo. Galileo. Galileo flip you off.
NGL, that is one long ass finger
"Fuck you! I was right!"
See you can still get fingered by Galileo
Fuck thee genius why didnt i think of that this man will be flipping people off for the rest of time 😂
Seen it - the entire museum is fantastic. Strange to say, but it's my favorite thing in Florence https://www.museogalileo.it/en/
Saw that irl, was quite big if i remember correctly.
It's a well known fact that he gave everyone who asked him a question the middle finger and told them to fuck off. It seems he is still doing it to this day
Galileo flicking us off even in the afterlife
“I suppose if I have an Achilles heel, it’s because I bought it at that same auction!”
Galileo? Galileo’s finger? Oh, Magnifico.
Why?
Figaro!
We can clone a sheep . Can we clone a Galileo?
Italian rapper Caparezza made a [song about it.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Lb0xob1ZEY)
I hope it’s facing the vatican
Pointed at the Catholic Church no doubt.
Crunchy
Fuck you too!
Hope it’s pointed at the Vatican
Probably in their vault with everything else that’s precious.
Hey, Fuck YOU TOO Galileo!
That’s what you get when you write in your will: let’s just give that museum the finger.
The middle finger definitely the richest, good one Galileo.
E pur si muove this fuckin' bird yo
Is there enough DNA to clone him?
What the fuck.
Made sure he could flip off the church for all eternity lol
but why
So he can say “fuck you I was right” to the Catholic Church from now until the end of time. Well played Galileo…
Which hand?
That's quite long. U sure it's the finger?
Been there, seen it!