Galileo's missing fingers found in jar.

More than a century after they were last seen, the two fingers cut from Italian astronomer Galileo's had almost 300 years ago are rediscovered. They were purchased at an auction and brought to the Museum of the History of Science in Florence. When Galileo's body was moved from a temporary monument to its final resting place in Florence, Italy, three fingers were cut from his hand in march 1737 and the last tooth remaining in his lower jaw was also taken. Two fingers and the tooth were sealed in a glass jar that disappeared after 1905. There was no trace of them for more than 100 years until the person brought them to the museum. The last person that saw these objects gave a very detail description in 1905. The jar matches in every minute detail the description. The auctioneer had no idea the fingers and tooth was Galileo. The museum plans to display the objects in March 2010. The museum has had the third finger since 1927. The people who cut off his fingers considered him a secular saint; the fingers removed were the ones he would have used to hold a pen.

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I find it very ironic that the fingers and the tooth was found at an auction. I just wonder how the jar with the two fingers and the tooth got misplaced. Did someone steal it? Or was it hidden by an object in the room? It would have been great to know how it got lost. In the article it said that three fingers were cut from his hand in March of 1737, I also wonder why only two fingers were placed in the jar and not all three. The third finger was found in 1927 and it doesn't say anything about where it was from 1737 to 1927 when it was brought to the museum. So where was that third finger all that time? It is pretty cool that the description for 1905 of the jar matches what the jar looks like when it was bought at the auction.
There are many things that I wonder about this story that don't really have answers to them like where were they for so many years? How did the person who bought them know that they were Galileo's? How did they get lost? Why were only two fingers put in the jar? and many more questions that don't have an answer.
It is very weird and cool that the other two fingers and the tooth were still in the original jar they were placed in and that they were actually being auctioned off.