> I just took a virtual tour, looking for Galileo's finger (which caused
> quite an impression on my kids) for curiosity's sake.  Check out
> "Room IV - Galileo Galilei" and rotate around until you see a glass
> cabinet between two windows (you will see an inclined plane on the
> opposite wall, so keep rotating).  Then, zoom into the tall
> white object on the upper shelf of the glass cabinet, a bit to the right
> of the wider object which hangs from the wall just above that upper shelf
> (this, BTW, is Galileo's [cracked] objective lens, which you may want to
> see also).

I believe there was a rumor I heard when I was in Catholic school that there
was a note for the head of the Church on the bottom of the 'Urn' that said

"Revolve around this!"

But, I believe that was apocryphal, as it was Copernicus who actually said
that. ;-)

Mark Wonsil