Housed at the Florence Institute and Museum of the History of Science among a collection of medieval scientific instruments is a strange relic. After Galileo Galilei died, his students stole the middle finger off of his corpse and managed to preserve it. Amazingly it still survives today in this collection. It stands displayed upward defying all those that oppose the advance of science.
edit – The museum link seems to be down. Here is a link to a page about it at the Jet Propulsion Labs.
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