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Balance
    • Setting:
      Room X
    • Maker:
      unknown
    • Date:
      18th cent.
    • Materials:
      wood, brass; case: wood, glass
    • Dimensions:
      360x345x530 mm
    • Inventory:
      567
    • Balance (Inv. 567)

Incomplete balance with steel balance beam and small brass pans, housed in a wooden and glass case. The pillar is sphinx-shaped. The item was already listed in the 1807 Inventory of the Chemistry Laboratory of the Museo di Fisica e Storia Naturale.