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Horizontal dial
    • Setting:
      Room VI
    • Maker:
      Georg Zorn
    • Place:
      Augsburg
    • Date:
      1613
    • Materials:
      gilt brass
    • Dimensions:
      diameter 140 mm
    • Inventory:
      2484
    • Horizontal dial (Inv. 2484)

Horizontal dial consisting of a disk mounted on a wooden base and complete with gnomon and magnetic compass for orientation. Made by Georg Zorn, about whom we have no information. Brought to Florence from Germany by Prince Mattias de' Medici in the first half of the seventeenth century.

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