Florence Museum Offers Exhibits On History Of Science

2007-05-02 10:04:19

( Arts )



Among the many museums in Florence, there is one Florence museum that can really capture the imaginations of those with strong affinity for the sciences. Unlike the Uffizi Museum Florence, which contains thousands of works of art, the Florence Museum of the History of Science presents masterpieces of science. The Florence museums of art display the paintings and sculpture that portray the creative soul of the Renaissance; but the science museum illustrates to you the incisive intellects of the scientists and technologists of the Renaissance whose contributions helped build modern civilization.

Not all people have the fortune to visit Florence, and view the exhibits in Florence Italy museums. If you are among this group, you have much to be thankful for with the advent of the Internet. To help bring the rich heritage of the Renaissance to mankind, the Florence Museum of the History of Science has created several online exhibits featuring over a thousand special objects included in its vast collection of scientific equipment and memorabilia.

You can enter the Web site of this unique Florence museum and view specially prepared colored pictures along with complete descriptions of the most important scientific pieces in the collection. Among these are the original instruments that Italian scientists of the Renaissance used, and the machines the Sienese engineers of that era constructed.

The online exhibits are arranged in themes. For instance, an exhibit centered on a thousand years of science in Italy offers a timeline of major events of historical and scientific consequence that happened in Italy in the last millennium; the exhibit has several sub-themes classified according to the different scientific disciplines. In another popular exhibit, the Florence Museum of the History of Science features the bicycle. You will be amused to learn about the different political and symbolic meanings attached to this two-wheeled vehicle.


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