The Museum of the History of Science is also called the Galileo Museum. It received this name in 2010, when the authorities decided to rename it in honor of the famous astronomer, mathematician, and physicist Galileo Galilei. In addition, many instruments, drawings, and other documents belonging to the scientist are displayed here. Here you can also see lenses and telescopes invented by Galileo. After all, it was he who became the first scientist to study the stars using such devices.
Among the exhibits there are many objects that at first glance seem like pieces of jewelry, so elegantly are they crafted. The museum has entire sections devoted to mechanics, pneumatology, electrostatics, medicine, and pharmaceutics. In a separate hall you can see weights and measures that were used at different times. And also all kinds of sextants, octants, compasses, chronometers, mechanical clocks, and many other specific measuring instruments.
It is especially pleasant to walk through such halls in the company of a mathematician or physicist you know. Believe me, with them all these mysterious devices will immediately become much clearer and more interesting.
