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Girolamo della Volpaia, Model of the lunar sphere

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Girolamo della Volpaia (ca. 1530-1614)
Model of the lunar sphere, Florence, 1557
Florence, Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, inv. 118

A demonstrative model of the Moon's geocentric orbit comprising an epicycle, two eccentric shells and three concentric shells, variously inclined with respect to one another.