Museo Galileo - Trattato di diuersi istrumenti matematici…, Antonio Santucci (facsimile)

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- Setting:
  
  Room VI
- Author:
  
  Antonio Santucci
- Date:
  
  original 1593-1594 / facsimile 2008
- Dimensions:
  
  facsimile 44x32,5 cm
- Inventory:
  
  Firenze, Biblioteca Marucelliana, Ms. C 82, cc. 44v-45r

Anonymous, but most certainly a work by Antonio Santucci, the cosmographer or "Master of the sphere" of Ferdinando I, this treatise describes some of the most important astronomical and surveying instruments kept in the Grand Ducal Wardrobe. The folio on display illustrates the folding rule inv. 2514.

Authors

- Antonio Santucci

Related objects

- Folding rule (Inv. 2511)