TOP: Michaelangelo crypt
2nd/3rd: Machiavelli crypt and statue
4th/5th: Galileo crypt and statue
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One church in Florence had the crypt of Michaelangelo, Galileo, Machiavelli, Dante, Marconi (radio), Fermi (physicist) and a host of others. The irony in it all was that the catholic church probably fought most of their teaching, as they did with Galileo. He was put under house arrest (and died there, broke and blind) during the Inquisition, for teaching that the earth was not the center of the universe. Those popes, they knew their science.
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Luckily for him, the catholic pope in 1992 (almost 400 years later) expressed regret for how the incident was handled...not that agreed with Galileo's conclusions or anything like that.
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Lumpy, the Science guy out
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