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Horary quadrant
    • Setting:
      Room II
    • Maker:
      Giovanni Battista Giusti
    • Place:
      Florence
    • Date:
      1568
    • Materials:
      brass
    • Dimensions:
      radius 249x236 mm
    • Inventory:
      2520
    • Horary quadrant (Inv. 2520)
    • Horary quadrant (Inv. 2520)

Quadrant signed by Giovanni Battista Giusti and set for latitude 43°40' (Florence). The front carries a degree scale, hour lines for Italian hours, a magic square, and the "Rota medii motus et quantitas diei" which indicates the zodiac signs, months, hours and the eight main winds. The back is engraved with a shadow square. Provenance: Medici collections.