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Galileo Galilei
Geometric and military compasses
c. 1606
IMSS: inv. 2430
Length 256 mm, width (open) 360 mm
Brass
Galileo Galilei [attr.]
Telescope
c. 1610
IMSS: inv. 2427
Length 1360 mm
Wood, paper, copper
Galileo Galilei
Telescope
Late 1609 - early 1610
IMSS: inv. 2428
Length 980 mm
Wood, leather
Unsigned
Galileo's objective lens with frame
Lens: late 1609 - early 1610 / Frame: 1677 by Vittorio Crosten
IMSS: inv. 2429
Lens diameter 38 mm / Frame 410 x 300 mm
Lens: glass, gilt brass / Frame: ivory, ebony
Unsigned
Galileo's jovilabe
Second half 17th C.
IMSS: inv. 3178
400 x 195 mm
Brass
Unsigned
Vincenzo Viviani's drawing of Galileo's pendulum clock
19th C. copy with frame
IMSS: inv. 2433
460 x 770mm
Pencil on paper, wood
Eustachio Porcellotti
Model of Galileo's pendulum clock
1877
IMSS: inv. 2085
Height 325 mm
Iron, brass
Eustachio Porcellotti
Model of Galileo's pendulum clock
1879
IMSS: inv. 3450
160 x 350 mm
Iron, brass
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