Galileo gives the world the finger

[alice wellintown]

Reminds me of DESCARTES’ BONES
A Skeletal History of the Conflict Between Faith and Reason
By Russell Shorto

Descartes gives the world head?


On Wed, Jun 9, 2010 at 10:50 PM, Joseph Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:
> Just read in the Independent that Galileo's thumb and finger are going on
> display in a Galileo Museum in Florence, along with some teeth and a
> vertebra. I'm not making this shit up. I found a photo of the finger
> (http://scribalterror.blogs.com/scribal_terror/images/2007/07/30/galileo1_1.jpg)
> which is displayed in what looks like a votive candle. Perhaps Galileo's
> ghost came up with this idea and pulled some invisible strings, the eternal
> flame of his final fuck you to all those cardinals  trying to live on a flat
> earth with the planets  circling the birthplace of so much celestial glory.
> The skin looks a bit dessicated but the message still comes through.
>
> Perhaps it is time for a sacred pilgrimage. One can imagine thousands of
> acolytes of the new order, telescopes in one hand , and in the other, index
> fingers raised in holy oblation.
>