Thematic Collections

Accademia dei Lincei
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The project, which developed out of a collaboration between the Museo Galileo and the Accademia dei Georgofili, aims to illustrate some aspects of the transformations that have occurred within Italian agriculture over the course of the twentieth century.

Accademia dei Lincei
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The proportional compass is a calculating instrument based on the use of proportional scales developed for specific arithmetic or geometric applications.

Accademia dei Lincei

This is a thematic digital library that, in addition to including the works on display in the exhibition, offers structured paths for accessing the contents and presents itself as a research environment open to continuous updating and implementation.

Accademia dei Lincei
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The digital library dedicated to the controversy over comets reconstructs the historical, iconographic, and textual atmosphere of the heated debate, from 1618 to 1626, sparked by the appearance of three celestial bodies in the sky. Natural philosophers, mathematicians, and astronomers investigated and argued over the composition, position, and movement of these “celestial splendors.”

Biblioteca digitale galileiana

The “Civilization of Anatomy”: the genre of Literary Anatomies in seventeenth-century Italy.

Bibliotheca Perspectivae

An innovative approach to the study of perspective and its sources

Amedeo Avogadro
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Digital library devoted to Amedeo Avogadro (1776-1856).

The website is available only in Italian.

Giorgio Roster: Scientist and Photographer
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Due to his strong experimental vocation, Roster used photography as a primary support to his scientific research.

The website is avaliable only in Italian.

Galileo's Disciples

Part of the Galilean corpus, this collection brings together some of the works of Galileo's disciples

Amerigo Vespucci at the Museum
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1512-2012: Evidences related to Vespucci in Museo Galileo's collections

The website is available only in Italian.

Giovanni Targioni Tozzetti: uno scienziato toscano del '700
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This collection (only in Italian) on the life and works of this Florentine scientist was conceived in honour of the 300-year anniversary of his birth.

Galileo and the Universe of His Books
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A partial replica of Galileo’s private library, displaying books and papers from the Fondo Galileiano in the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze.
The website is available only in Italian