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Horizontal dial
    • Setting:
      Room II
    • Maker:
      unknown
    • Place:
      Italian
    • Date:
      late 17th cent.
    • Materials:
      slate
    • Dimensions:
      143x124 mm
    • Inventory:
      1283
    • Horizontal dial (Inv. 1283)

Elliptical sundial with gnomon. Displays a coat of arms similar to that of the Medici with a decoration above it. The quadrant carries the Italian hours. Below, there is a motto on the fleeting nature of life, "Fugit irrevocabile tempus" [Time flows irreversibly]. Provenance: Vincenzo Viviani bequest.

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