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 Astrolabe The device is unsigned, but the style in which it is constructed has led to its attribution to either Egnatio Danti or Giovanni Battista Giusti, both of whom were active in Florence in the 1560s. The instrument belonged to the Medicean collections. It was requested and borrowed by natural philosophers and mathematical practitioners who wished to make calculations and observations of the Florentine sky, including Galileo. |