Guided tour in Florence and to the exhibition: Galileo. Images of the universe from antiquity to the telescope.

Palazzo Strozzi-Firenze, March 13 - August 30, 2009 Exhibition hours:
Daily 9 a.m - 8 p.mThursday 9 a.m - 11 p.m.

The exhibition reconstructs the history of the Universe, as designed and shown extending the Scientific Revolution.

From the visions and mystical poetry prior to the Greeks, to Ptolemy, passing through the contribution of astronomy and Arab lands to the theory of Copernicus shot from Galileo and Kepler.

Scientific instruments of exceptional beauty, celestial atlases, drawings, paintings by Botticelli, Rubens, Guercino, sculptures, archaeological finds and precious illuminated manuscripts from the most prestigious museums and libraries of the world, with cosmological models made for the occasion.

A special section is reserved for the original telescope of Galileo came up to us preserved in the Museum of the History of Science in Florence.

The visit will be conducted by an official guide and completed with the guided tour of Santa Croce Church where the tomb of Galileo is placed.

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