Museo Galileo
italiano
Virtual Museum
Armillary sphere
    • Setting:
      Room III
    • Maker:
      unknown
    • Date:
      17th cent.
    • Materials:
      brass
    • Dimensions:
      sphere diameter 70 mm, height 150 mm, width 95 mm
    • Inventory:
      119
    • Armillary sphere (Inv. 119)

Small brass armillary sphere on a turned wooden stand. The sphere is geocentric and the Earth is represented by a small boxwood sphere. The horizon circle and the meridian are graduated. The sphere also carries the zodiac signs.