Greetings all
First, I’ll make a couple of posts today because it’s been a few days and I have to catch up.
Day 18 was our last day in Florence. We started the day by walking to the main part of town where we had coffee at Della Artigiane again, thanks to the suggestion of Jonna. Neat place. Needs more space.
That gave us time to recover before going to the Galileo museum. They have telescopes there! Who knew? You can see for miles a… Yeah, whatever, you knew where I was going with this thanks to the title of the post.
There’s so much stuff there about the history of science. It’s really kind of a shame just to visit. I want to wallow in all that. Study each item, experiment with it all, see how it translates to the next one in the line.
They have Edison’s first phonograph! But more than that, I was entranced by the tools for measuring, well, everything. Compasses, sextants, barometers, thermometers, and so on and so on.
And that doesn’t even touch the astrolabes, early machines to produce electricity, maps galore, and more.
Such a cool place.
After that, we walked up to this touristy pizza place right outside the Uffizi. I picked it because it’s under these vaulted marble ceilings. Was actually a pretty good choice. The pizza was pretty good and we could buy a bottle of wine to go. With that bottle and leftover pizza, we had dinner in our room at the Ville Sull’Arno.
Then we read and relaxed until we fell asleep. There’d be more adventures in the morning.