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Armillary sphere
    • Setting:
      Room III
    • Maker:
      unknown
    • Date:
      ca. 1575
    • Materials:
      brass
    • Dimensions:
      sphere diameter 170 mm, height 340 mm, width 230 mm
    • Inventory:
      1104
    • Armillary sphere (Inv. 1104)

On this brass armillary sphere the zodiac signs are represented by the animals and figures after which they are named, with no other markings. The horizon circle carries a small magnetic compass. The Earth is not shown. Provenance: Medici collections.