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Horary converter disk
    • Setting:
      Room II
    • Maker:
      unknown
    • Place:
      Italian
    • Date:
      second half 17th cent.
    • Materials:
      brass
    • Dimensions:
      diameter 117 mm
    • Inventory:
      1287
    • Horary converter disk (Inv. 1287)

This horary disk has a revolving index, but other parts are missing. Despite its rather crude manufacture, it could convert the various types of equal hours most commonly used in Europe: Italian hours, Babylonian hours, and astronomical hours. There are two opposing semi-circular appendices. The surface is engraved with three circles carrying the hour marks. Two sights are attached to the back. Provenance: Vincenzo Viviani bequest.

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