Museo Galileo, the former Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza is located in Florence, Italy, in Piazza dei Giudici, along the River Arno and close to the Uffizi Gallery. The museum, dedicated to astronomer and scientist Galileo Galilei, is housed in Palazzo Castellani, an 11th-century building which was then known as the Castello d’Altafronte.
Paolo Galluzzi is an Italian historian of science.
Ibrahim Ibn Saîd al-Sahlì was an Andalusian globe-maker, active from 1050 to 1090.
Christian Boyling was a scientific instrument maker.
Charles Cabrier II was a notable London clock and scientific instrument maker.
Jacques Canivet (1714-1773) was a French scientific instrument maker.
Mario Cartaro was an engraver, draftsman, and print merchant.
Louis Chapotot was a French scientific instrument maker.
Francesco Comelli was an Italian scientific instrument maker.
Edmund Culpeper (1660–1738) was an English scientific instrument maker.
Carlo Roberto Dati was a Florentine nobleman, philologist and scientist, a disciple of Galileo (1564-1642) and, in his youth, an acquaintance of Evangelista Torricelli (1608-1647).
Filippo De Palma was an Italian scientific instrument maker.
Candido del Buono was an Italian scientific instrument maker.
Paolo del Buono (1625-1659) was an Italian experimental scientist and scientific instrument maker who studied under Gallileo.
Charles-François Delamarche was a French geographer and mapmaker.
Daniel Delander, also known as De Lander or Delaunder, was a notable London clock and watch maker coming from a dynasty of clockmakers.
Galileo's objective lens is a specific objective lens held in the Museo Galileo, Florence, Italy. It was used by Galileo Galilei in the Galilean telescope with which he discovered the four largest moons of Jupiter in 1610. The lens has a diameter of 38mm and a gilt brass housing. The frame is made of ebony and ivory and has dimensions of 410mm x 300mm.
The Campani compound microscope is a microscope on exhibit at the Museo Galileo in Italy, thought to have been built by optical instrument maker Giuseppe Campani in the second half 17th century. For a time it was thought to have been built by Italian scientist Galileo Galilei but no longer bares that attribution.
The Quadrans Vetus is a medieval astronomical instrument.
The Reale Museo di Fisica e Storia Naturale was an Italian museum founded on 22 February 1775 in Florence that survived until 1878, when its collections were split up in various Florentine museums.
