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Quadrant with Easter scale
    • Setting:
      Room II
    • Maker:
      Josua Habermel [attr.]
    • Place:
      German
    • Date:
      ca. 1600
    • Materials:
      gilt copper; box: wood, leather
    • Dimensions:
      radius 145 mm
    • Inventory:
      2518
    • Quadrant with Easter scale (Inv. 2518)
    • Quadrant with Easter scale (Inv. 2518)

Small quadrant with case, attributed to the maker Josua Habermel. The limb carries a double graduation for measuring heights and distances. The front is engraved with two open compasses. The sights are fixed, while the index arm is mobile, with a steel spring serving as guide. On the back is a table for computing Easter and the inscription iuxta Kalendarii reformationem [after the calendar reform]. Brought to Florence from Germany by Prince Mattias de' Medici in the first half of the seventeenth century.

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