Gigli’s professional training and many scientific writings and notes. Those allow the reader to reconstruct the author’s progression, particularly for what concerns the development of the surgical practice adopted by Gigli in the obstetrical and gynaecological field, with the use of the wire saw. The second fond is made of approximately 200 works dealing with medicine, and more precisely with obstetrics and gynaecology, mostly in Italian and German language. Both fonds were donated to the Institute and Museum of History of Science, now Museo Galileo, by Leonardo Gigli’s brother Ottavio in 1954 and grandson Fulvio in 2003, together with some of Gigli’s surgical instruments. References External links Archive of Museo Galileo 1863 births 1908 deaths People from Sesto Fiorentino Italian surgeons Italian obstetricians 20th-century Italian physicians University of Florence alumni 20th-century surgeons