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Astrolabio con planisfero
Astrolabe with a planisphere

1568
Brass; diameter 24,8 cm
Florence, Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, inv. 1285

Astrolabe with three plates: two for the latitude of the regions between Italy and Germany, the third with a planisphere projection of the northern terrestrial hemisphere.