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Jovilabe
Brass instrument, undated and of unknown maker. The Jovilabe is certainly connected to Galileo's efforts to determine the periods of Jupiter's moons—whose discovery he announced in 1610 in Sidereus Nuncius—and to compute the times of their eclipses. Galileo immediately realized that eclipses [...]
Creator
- Galileo Galilei
Publisher
- Museo Galileo - Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza
Type of item
- Jovilabe
- astronomical instruments
Medium
- brass
- Brass
- brass (alloy)
Providing institution
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Rights
- © Museo Galileo - Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza
Creation date
- second half 17th cent.
- 1700
- 1651
Identifier
- urn:imss:instrument:404003
Extent
- 400x195 mm
Language
- eng
- ita
Is part of
- Medici collections
References
- http://catalogue.museogalileo.it/biography/GalileoGalilei.html
Year
- 1651
- 1700
Providing country
- Italy