The man who brought Leonardo and Galileo into the 21st century | Lifestyle News, The Indian Express

The man who brought Leonardo and Galileo into the 21st century | Lifestyle News, The Indian Express

By New York Times |Florence, Italy |Updated: December 23, 2018 10:31:45 pm

The man who brought Leonardo and Galileo into the 21st century

For the past two years, Galileo scholars and aficionados have been able to access all of the Tuscan prodigy’s manuscripts and the principal related scholarship through the search engine Galileo//thek@, a project developed through the museum.

The museum draws around 300,000 visitors a year. (Source: Clara Vannucci/ The New York Times)

Elisabetta Povoledo

Just Google, “10 greatest geniuses of all times,” and it is highly likely that two of the names on that list will be Leonardo da Vinci and Galileo Galilei.

Now, think about what you would do if you were put in charge of bringing their legacy into the 21st century, in all its complexity, as neither man can be reduced to one simple label, say “artist” or “astronomer.” Both were proverbial, intellectually omnivorous Renaissance men.

But that is the life’s work of Paolo Galluzzi, the longtime director of Florence’s Museo Galileo and former director of the Biblioteca Leonardiana, the research center dedicated to things Leonardo, who has successfully masterminded the conversion of the two analog geniuses into the digital age.