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XIV.9 Large rectangular lodestone
Date:Armature: first half 18th cent.
Materials:wood, lodestone, iron
Dimensions:box: 1060x730x805 mm
Current inventory:676
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Large armed lodestone in a wooden box painted blue. The caps are held in place by large wooden screws. The lodestone can be viewed through two lozenge-shaped windows at the front. The large wrought iron keeper attracted to the pole pieces is suspended from a pulley with a heavy alabaster counterweight. This is probably the large lodestone seen in 1696 in the Uffizi Gallery and described by the Dutch traveler Cornelis Mejjer. It may be the lodestone purchased by Cosimo II de' Medici in 1609 on Galileo's advice.

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