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Thermoscope
    • Setting:
      Room VII
    • Maker:
      unknown
    • Place:
      Florence
    • Date:
      mid-17th cent.
    • Materials:
      glass
    • Dimensions:
      height 135 mm, diameter 85 mm
    • Inventory:
      3743
    • Thermoscope (Inv. 3743)

Glass object, probably part of a thermoscope. The upper aperture (which, however, is closed) should have accommodated a glass tube for the instrument to be complete.