The Museo Galileo, together with the University of Cagliari, presents a new digital platform titled L’iconografia botanica del Tesoro Messicano nei commenti di Ioannes Schreck e Fabio Colonna (The Botanical Iconography of the Mexican Treasure in the commentaries of Ioannes Schreck and Fabio Colonna).
On February 14, 2025—in the presence of Giovanni Bettarini, Councillor for Culture of the Municipality of Florence—two recently acquired artworks of great value were presented at the Museo Galileo.
The journal Galilaeana. Studies in Renaissance and Early Modern Science invites submissions for the monographic issue “Knowledge in Use. Practices and Practitioners in the Renaissance and Early Modern Period (14th-17th centuries)”,
Il Museo Galileo lancia un progetto unico in Italia, invitando il pubblico a diventare protagonista nella creazione di una biblioteca digitale su donne e astronomia intitolata Donne del cielo
The journal "Galilaeana. Studies in Renaissance and Early Modern Science" invites scholars in the history of mathematics and researchers in the field of Renaissance science to submit contributions for a monographic issue on “Mathematical Thought in the Renaissance and the Genesis of Modern Mathematics”..
The website created by Museo Galileo makes it possible to explore the 53 maps painted on the cabinet doors of the Map Room in Palazzo Vecchio as well as Egnazio Danti’s terrestrial globe.
The collection of busts belonging to the Ospedale di Santa Maria Nuova, which has been on deposit in the Museo Galileo for many years, has become part of the permanent museum itinerary of the Florentine hospital.
The Thek@ Favaro is an integrated archive on the life and work of Antonio Favaro, one of the key figures in the history of Italian science between the late 19th century and the early 20th century.
The “Pietro Stefanelli” book collection is now entirely catalogued and available to scholars.
“In the name of Francesco Guicciardini. Digital projects and new philological perspectives”
Two closely related events
The Symposium on Causality will be hosted at the Museo Galileo on September 26 and 27.
On September 13, the prize-giving ceremony of the first edition of the Premio Barnaba. Un museo una storia.
The Prize was jointly awarded to Francesco Saverio Pavone and Alberto Diaspro.
The Museo Galileo library recently acquired the private collection of books and documents of Maurizio Torrini, a historian of philosophical and scientific thought of the modern age.
Museo della Ceramica di Montelupo and Ospedale di Santa Maria Nuova, diffuse exhibition
On the occasion of the exhibition Circinus: Proportional Compasses from the 15th to the 18th Century (Museo Galileo, 28 June – 15 September 2024), the Museo Galileo is pleased to announce the publication of a thematic digital library dedicated to the history of this extraordinary instrument, which is one of the most significant achievements of applied mathematics in the Western world.
13-28 giugno 2024
Parigi, Sorbonne Université, Galerie La Passerelle, Campus Pierre et Marie Curie
A study day to discuss innovation in the preservation of photographic materials.
Museo Galileo signed the Barcelona Declaration on Open Research Information, prepared by a group of over than 25 experts
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