Florence has some amazing tributes to the Renaissance men that walked these streets in their smarty pants and changed the world with their math, science, and art. While getting to them, we saw a few Medieval men peddling beads and selfie sticks who clearly didn't hear the news that we’re supposed to be civilized now.
The Galileo museum is stuffed full of the tools that set the stage for the scientific revolution. Galileo also gave everyone the finger. Really, some of his actual fingers are on display. I thought this quite summed him up:
“Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot not be understood without first learning to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed. It is written in the language of mathematics, and its characters are triangles, circles and other geometric figures, without which it is impossible to humanly understand a single word of it.”
There's also a museum where our kids could get their hands on some of Leonardo da Vinci’s inventions and practice their backwards and upside down writing in a mirror. They've tried to pass off some schoolwork that appears to have been written the same way.
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| Playing outside Galileo's museum with a huge sundial in the background |
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| The finger, appropriately flipped |
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| A pulley system that makes it easy for a 4-year old to haul heavy stuff - we need to install one of these |
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| You have to make a goofy face when making a Renaissance bridge from logs |
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| I wanna touch it! Why can't I touch this one!? |
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