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What a legacy (europe.pub)
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[–] don@lemm.ee 18 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

According to the wiki:

Tozzetti later wrote that Capponi's explanation for taking the two fingers as relics was "because Galileo wrote so many beautiful things with them."

Galileo’s middle finger

[–] SharkAttak@kbin.melroy.org 1 points 4 days ago

It wasn't taken with that meaning in mind (which didn't exist at the time), but sure it's a curious coincidence.