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Portable quadrant
    • Setting:
      Room II
    • Maker:
      unknown
    • Date:
      17th cent.
    • Materials:
      brass
    • Dimensions:
      radius 129 mm
    • Inventory:
      2513
    • Portable quadrant (Inv. 2513)

This quadrant, which closely resembles item also corresponding to inv. 2513, consists of a thin plate on which are roughly inscribed a few lines radiating from the vertex to the arc. The rim carries several scales. The instrument was used to plot and design dials. Provenance: Medici collections.

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