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Mechanisms of the balance barometer by Filippo Cecchi and reconstruction of the quadrant. Today conserved at the Institute and Museum of the History of Science in Florence (inv. 3816), the barometer was once under the Loggia della Signoria in Florence.

Mechanisms of the balance barometer by Filippo Cecchi and reconstruction of the quadrant. Today conserved at the Institute and Museum of the History of Science in Florence (inv. 3816), the barometer was once under the Loggia della Signoria in Florence.

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Experiment of the Torricellian type, E.Maignan, "Cursus Philosophicus", Toulouse, 1653.

The Vallombrosa Abbey, Reggello.

Engraving depicting the Vallombrosa Abbey, F. Fontani, "Viaggio pittorico della Toscana", Firenze, per V. Batelli, 1827 (3 ed.).

Façade of the Accademia dei Georgofili, Florence.

View from above of the Ximenes Observatory, Florence.

View of the Ximenes Observatory, Florence.

Terrace-garden with the meteorological hut of the Ximenes Observatory, Florence.

Interior of the meteorological hut, Ximenes Observatory, Florence.

Loggia della Signoria (also known as Loggia dei Lanzi or Loggia dell'Orcagna), Florence.

Mechanisms of the balance barometer by Filippo Cecchi and reconstruction of the quadrant. Today conserved at the Institute and Museum of the History of Science in Florence (inv. 3816), the barometer was once under the Loggia della Signoria in Florence.

"Infingardo" thermometer, mid XVII cent., Florentine manufacture, Medici Collections Accademia del Cimento nucleus), Institute and Museum of the History of Science (inv. 190), Florence.

Marsilio Landriani's eudiometer, 1776, Lorraine Collections, Institute and Museum of the History of Science (inv. 1371), Florence.

Paper-disk hygrometer, Adams, second half XVIII cent., Lorraine Collections, Institute and Museum of the History of Science (inv. 411, 4), Florence.

Registering barometer, Felice Fontana, late XVIII cent., Lorraine Collections, Institute and Museum of the History of Science (inv. 1163), Florence.

Sphere hydrometers, mid XVII cent., Florentine manufacture, Medici Collections Accademia del Cimento nucleus), Institute and Museum of the History of Science (inv. 218-225, 227-236), Florence.

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Experiment of the Torricellian type, E.Maignan, "Cursus Philosophicus", Toulouse, 1653.

The Vallombrosa Abbey, Reggello.

Engraving depicting the Vallombrosa Abbey, F. Fontani, "Viaggio pittorico della Toscana", Firenze, per V. Batelli, 1827 (3 ed.).

Façade of the Accademia dei Georgofili, Florence.

View from above of the Ximenes Observatory, Florence.

View of the Ximenes Observatory, Florence.

Terrace-garden with the meteorological hut of the Ximenes Observatory, Florence.

Interior of the meteorological hut, Ximenes Observatory, Florence.

Loggia della Signoria (also known as Loggia dei Lanzi or Loggia dell'Orcagna), Florence.

Mechanisms of the balance barometer by Filippo Cecchi and reconstruction of the quadrant. Today conserved at the Institute and Museum of the History of Science in Florence (inv. 3816), the barometer was once under the Loggia della Signoria in Florence.

"Infingardo" thermometer, mid XVII cent., Florentine manufacture, Medici Collections Accademia del Cimento nucleus), Institute and Museum of the History of Science (inv. 190), Florence.

Marsilio Landriani's eudiometer, 1776, Lorraine Collections, Institute and Museum of the History of Science (inv. 1371), Florence.

Paper-disk hygrometer, Adams, second half XVIII cent., Lorraine Collections, Institute and Museum of the History of Science (inv. 411, 4), Florence.

Registering barometer, Felice Fontana, late XVIII cent., Lorraine Collections, Institute and Museum of the History of Science (inv. 1163), Florence.

Sphere hydrometers, mid XVII cent., Florentine manufacture, Medici Collections Accademia del Cimento nucleus), Institute and Museum of the History of Science (inv. 218-225, 227-236), Florence.