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II.23 Horizontal dial
Maker:Georg Zorn
Place:Augsburg
Date:1613
Materials:gilt brass
Dimensions:diameter 140 mm
Current inventory:2484
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Horizontal dial consisting of a disk mounted on a wooden base and complete with gnomon and magnetic compass for orientation. Made by Georg Zorn, about whom we have no information. Brought to Florence from Germany by Prince Mattias de' Medici in the first half of the seventeenth century.

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