Galileo Museum Piazza dè Giudici, 1, Florence

Florence's history of science museum features engraved intricate mechanical instruments from Galileo and his peers practiced a science that was an art form of the highest aesthetic order.

Man with the Telescope May 29, 2013

This morning, our Engineering class was spent at the Galileo Museum. We had an informative tour filled with demonstrations, intriguing machines and inventions. I could have spent hours in the museum looking through all of the cool machines, maps and telescopes. "An experiment, like every other event which takes place, is a natural phenomenon; but in a scientific experiment the circumstances are so arranged...