Museo Galileo
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Aristotelian planetarium
    • Setting:
      Room II
    • Maker:
      unknown
    • Place:
      Italian
    • Date:
      ca. 1600
    • Materials:
      painted wood
    • Dimensions:
      980x1500x980 mm
    • Inventory:
      2700
    • Aristotelian planetarium (Inv. 2700)
    • Aristotelian planetarium (Inv. 2700)

Large armillary sphere made of wood painted in bright colors, supported by a turned wooden stand. Of Ptolemaic design, with the Earth at the center, the sphere also displays the heaven of fixed stars. The horizon is octagonal. Provenance: Vincenzo Viviani bequest.