How Galileo helped create the modern world

Photo illustration by Angelo Bautista. Original images by Steve Paulson, BernzBernz, and Massimiliano Calamelli (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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At the Galileo Museum in Florence, you can see how modern science developed. There’s a dazzling collection of old scientific instruments, including the telescope Galileo used to discover new moons. You can also see his actual middle finger. Cosmologist Marcelo Gleiser explains how Galileo revolutionized science and helped create the modern world.