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Ever wondered how long a corpse can "rest in peace" before so called science wants to step in 'legally' desecrate a grave? The reason we seem to dig up old bones of people from ancient cultures in the name of science to learn more about how they lived, what they probably did, and try to confirm what we already know or 'assume' about them. Did Galileo go to the grave with the regret of the world not knowing what sent him blind? I'd be pretty sure as an assumption that he didn't. If his blindness was hereditary then I'd say his family would have had the same happen to them - any record of that? Else as already stated by others, he might have damaged his eyes looking at the sun. We know that he transformed what they belived 400 years ago about how the heavens operated, we know what he did in relation to the field of astronomy and that wasn't because he was buried with a telescope from which is concluded this man was an astronomer? How many astronomers are buried with their scopes so that someone can dig them up and come to that conclusion.
I say leave his bones alone. We know what he already did for science in his day and how it has impacted on ours today. Chances are they'll do tests that are inconclusive, his skull finishes up on public exhibition for a while before it is stolen, and then we've got another headless bunch of bones associated with a famous person in history lying in the remains of a grave that shouldn't have been disturbed in the first place.
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