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Friday, July 6, 2012

Science Florentine

One room of Susini's wax anatomical models at La Specola.

A model of the bicep at the Museo Galileo in Florence

One of Susini's famed Venuses

An armillary sphere by Antonio Santucci at the Museo Galileo

Early thermometers at the Museo Galileo

A sundial on the exterior of the Santa Maria Novella
"Wine for Women"

The "baby hatch" at the Ospidale degli Innocente. The grate was made just this size so that only newborns could pass through.
A wax depicting the plague at La Specola
A larger view of the "baby hatch" at the Ospidale. The building itself was designed by Brunelleschi, the architect of the famed Duomo in the heart of Florence
A wooden model of a fetus in utero at La Specola
A relic at San Lorenzo in Florence

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