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Horizontal cylinder dial
    • Setting:
      Room II
    • Maker:
      unknown
    • Place:
      Italian
    • Date:
      17th cent.
    • Materials:
      wood, iron, paper
    • Dimensions:
      76x135x65 mm
    • Inventory:
      2486
    • Horizontal cylinder dial (Inv. 2486)

Cylinder dial to be read horizontally. The cylinder, divided into sections for the morning and afternoon, carries the hour lines and is fixed to a base on two supports that enable it to rotate and receive the gnomon's shadow in all seasons. Calibrated for latitude 45° (the Po plain). Provenance: Medici collections.

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