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Horizontal dial
    • Setting:
      Room II
    • Maker:
      Giovan Battista Magnelli
    • Place:
      Florence
    • Date:
      1692
    • Materials:
      slate
    • Dimensions:
      diameter 292 mm
    • Inventory:
      3189
    • Horizontal dial (Inv. 3189)

Round sundial whose surface is marked with three dials: the first for astronomical hours, the second for Italian hours, the third for ancient or Jewish hours. The gnomon of the third dial is missing. Signed by Giovan Battista Magnelli, a maker on whom we have no information.

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