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Horizontal dial
    • Setting:
      Room II
    • Maker:
      unknown
    • Place:
      French or Italian
    • Date:
      17th cent.
    • Materials:
      ivory, brass
    • Dimensions:
      diameter 40 mm, height 35 mm
    • Inventory:
      134
    • Horizontal dial (Inv. 134)
    • Horizontal dial (Inv. 134)

Dial in the shape of a small spotted-ivory box, complete with a screw-on lid whose inside carries a disk showing the phases of the Moon and a converter for changing lunar hours into solar hours. At the bottom of the box is a compass for orienting the dial, with a windrose on colored paper. There is a glass and an hour circle fitted with a gnomon. The dial is calibrated for latitude 45°30'. Provenance: Medici collections.

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