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Horary quadrant
    • Setting:
      Room II
    • Maker:
      Giovanni Battista Giusti
    • Place:
      Florence
    • Date:
      1565
    • Materials:
      brass
    • Dimensions:
      204x185 mm
    • Inventory:
      2524
    • Horary quadrant (Inv. 2524)
    • Horary quadrant (Inv. 2524)

Quadrant signed by Giovanni Battista Giusti and set for latitude 43°40' (Florence). The front carries a degree scale, with markings for the tropics and the equator, hour lines for Italian hours, a shadow square and a "Tabula Solis motus" [Table of the motion of the Sun], indicating the Sun's entrance into the zodiac signs. On the back is engraved a windrose divided into eight 45° sectors with the names of the winds. In the center of the windrose was a magnetic compass (now missing). Provenance: Medici collections.