Man Buys Galileo's Tooth and Fingers Two fingers and a tooth once belonging to Galileo Galilei have been found by an art collector who purchased them a recent auction, where they were being sold as unidentified artifacts contained in a 17th-century wooden case. The newly-recovered body parts, along with another finger and a vertebra(脊椎骨), were separated from the rest of the Galileo’s remains by scientists and historians during a reburial(埋葬しなおす)ceremony 95 years after his death. The relics were then passed from collector to collector until they went missing in 1905.