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<h5>Vincenzo Viviani [attr.], Astrolabe</h5>
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<p class="Normal-H">1645<br/>Copper, wood, iron; diameter 23 c<br/>Florence, Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, inv. 1289</p>
<p class="Normal-H">This astrolabe, from the Vincenzo Viviani bequest, seems to have been made for teaching purposes, perhaps by the scientist as a young man.</p>
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<a href="emed.asp?c=70104"><img src="https://vitruvio.imss.fi.it/foto/mediciscienze/70104_60q.gif" alt="Portrait of Cosimo III de&#8217; Medici" width="60" height="60" class="thumbnail"/></a><a href="emed.asp?c=35417"><img src="https://vitruvio.imss.fi.it/foto/mediciscienze/35417_60q.gif" alt="Samuel Morland and John Marke, Trigonometric machine" width="60" height="60" class="thumbnail"/></a><a href="emed.asp?c=35418"><img src="https://vitruvio.imss.fi.it/foto/mediciscienze/35418_60q.gif" alt="Samuel Morland, Henri Sutton and Samuel Knibb, Calculating machine" width="60" height="60" class="thumbnail"/></a><a href="emed.asp?c=35423"><img src="https://vitruvio.imss.fi.it/foto/mediciscienze/35423_60q.gif" alt="Tito Livio Burattini [attr.], Calculating machine" width="60" height="60" class="thumbnail"/></a><a href="emed.asp?c=70105"><img src="https://vitruvio.imss.fi.it/foto/mediciscienze/70105_60q.gif" alt="Vincenzo Viviani, Formazione e misura di tutti i cieli: con la struttura e quadratura esatta dell&#8217;intero e delle parti di un nuovo cielo ammirabile e di uno degli antichi delle volte regolari degli architetti" width="60" height="60" class="thumbnail"/></a><a href="emed.asp?c=70106"><img src="https://vitruvio.imss.fi.it/foto/mediciscienze/70106_60q.gif" alt="Vincenzo Viviani, Discorso al serenissimo Cosimo III granduca di Toscana intorno al difendersi dai riempimenti, e dalle corrosioni dei fiumi applicato ad Arno in vicinanza della cittą di Firenze" width="60" height="60" class="thumbnail"/></a><a href="emed.asp?c=70107"><img src="https://vitruvio.imss.fi.it/foto/mediciscienze/70107_60q.gif" alt="Guido Grandi, Trattato delle resistenze principiato da Vincenzio Viviani per illustrare le opere del Galileo ed ora compiuto e riordinato colla giunta di quelle dimostrazioni che vi mancavano dal p. d. Guido Grandi" width="60" height="60" class="thumbnail"/></a><a href="emed.asp?c=35462"><img src="https://vitruvio.imss.fi.it/foto/mediciscienze/35462_60q.gif" alt="Compound microscope, part of body-tube" width="60" height="60" class="thumbnail"/></a><a href="emed.asp?c=35382"><img src="https://vitruvio.imss.fi.it/foto/mediciscienze/35382_60q.gif" alt="Vincenzo Viviani [attr.], Ciphering device" width="60" height="60" class="thumbnail"/></a><a href="emed.asp?c=35416"><img src="https://vitruvio.imss.fi.it/foto/mediciscienze/35416_60q.gif" alt="Petrus ab Aggere, Theodolite" width="60" height="60" class="thumbnail"/></a><a href="emed.asp?c=35471"><img src="https://vitruvio.imss.fi.it/foto/mediciscienze/35471_60q.gif" alt="Telescopic theodolite" width="60" height="60" class="thumbnail"/></a><a href="emed.asp?c=35350"><img src="https://vitruvio.imss.fi.it/foto/mediciscienze/35350_60q.gif" alt="Joseph Pinam, Solar quadrant" width="60" height="60" class="thumbnail"/></a><a href="emed.asp?c=35371"><img src="https://vitruvio.imss.fi.it/foto/mediciscienze/35371_60q.gif" alt="Proportional compasses" width="60" height="60" class="thumbnail"/></a><a href="emed.asp?c=35379"><img src="https://vitruvio.imss.fi.it/foto/mediciscienze/35379_60q.gif" alt="Surveying compasses" width="60" height="60" class="thumbnail"/></a><a href="emed.asp?c=35354"><img src="https://vitruvio.imss.fi.it/foto/mediciscienze/35354_60q.gif" alt="Nocturnal" width="60" height="60" class="thumbnail"/></a><a href="emed.asp?c=35396"><img src="https://vitruvio.imss.fi.it/foto/mediciscienze/35396_60q.gif" alt="Astrolabe" width="60" height="60" class="thumbnail"/></a><img src="https://vitruvio.imss.fi.it/foto/mediciscienze/35451_60q.gif" alt="Vincenzo Viviani [attr.], Astrolabe" class="active" width="60" height="60"/><a href="emed.asp?c=35359"><img src="https://vitruvio.imss.fi.it/foto/mediciscienze/35359_60q.gif" alt="Astronomical and surveying compendium" width="60" height="60" class="thumbnail"/></a><a href="emed.asp?c=35356"><img src="https://vitruvio.imss.fi.it/foto/mediciscienze/35356_60q.gif" alt="Horizontal sundial" width="60" height="60" class="thumbnail"/></a></div>
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