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Girolamo della Volpaia [attr.], Orologio solare
Girolamo della Volpaia [attr.], Polyhedral dial

Florence 16th cent.
Boxwood; height 12,1 cm
Florence, Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, inv. 3193

Multiple sundial in the shape of a triangular pillar, set for the latitude of Rome. On the upper face is a scaphe dial

on the vertical faces there are declining quadrants and at the bottom there is a compass.