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<p class="Normal-H" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;">Wood; heigth 16,5 cm<br/>Florence, Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, inv. 3261</p>
<p class="Normal-H" style="text-align:justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;">Polyhedral dials attributed to Stefano Buonsignori, the cosmographer of Francesco I de&#8217; Medici.</p>
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