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III.61 Armillary sphere
Maker:Giuseppe Torricelli
Place:Florence
Date:1739
Materials:brass, wood
Dimensions:155x155x280 mm
Current inventory:117
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Armillary sphere showing the Ptolemaic system. It has brass rings and a wooden base. Signed by Giuseppe Torricelli, a maker about whom we have no information. Bought and restored by Ferdinando Meucci in the second half of the nineteenth century.

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