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Horizontal dial
    • Setting:
      Room II
    • Maker:
      unknown
    • Place:
      Italian
    • Date:
      first half 17th cent.
    • Materials:
      boxwood
    • Dimensions:
      295x130 mm
    • Inventory:
      3702
    • Horizontal dial (Inv. 3702)

Rectangular dial with compass (parts missing) for orienting the instrument, inserted in the center of a removable disk bearing the zodiac signs, and the windrose. The edges of the table are engraved with another dial complete with gnomon and a second windrose.

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