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Windrose
    • Setting:
      Room V
    • Inventor:
      Robert Dudley
    • Maker:
      unknown
    • Place:
      English
    • Date:
      1596
    • Materials:
      copper
    • Dimensions:
      diameter 340 mm
    • Inventory:
      3372
    • Windrose (Inv. 3372)

This windrose probably belonged to a navigational magnetic compass. The back has a wooden base. Provenance: Robert Dudley bequest to the Medici collections.