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The article contains a brief description of the exhibitions and laboratories held at “Il Giardino di Archimede” (The Garden of Archimedes) and of the philosophy that inspires them, with special attention to three aspects of mathematical museology: history, play, everyday life.
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For the sake of brevity I am rather imprecise here. However, in the exhibition panels this is explained using the exact words of Galileo.
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Giusti, E. (2012). Playing with Mathematics at Il Giardino di Archimede . In: Behrends, E., Crato, N., Rodrigues, J. (eds) Raising Public Awareness of Mathematics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25710-0_12
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