Category: Instruments

Gli strumenti della scienza (The Instruments of Science)

Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza

• Il compasso di Galileo (Galileo's Compass), edited by F. Camerota, 2004, with accompanying CD-ROM and cardboard reproduction of the geometric and military compass by G. Galilei.

Instrument Descriptions and Reproductions

• Felli M., L'astrolabio di Galileo (The Astrolabe of Galileo), Firenze, Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, 1983, with, attached, a card reproduction of Galileo's astrolabe. Out of print
• Righini G., Le operazioni del compasso geometrico et militare di Galileo Galilei (The Operation of the Geometric and Military Compass of Galileo Galilei), Florence, Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, 1980, with, attached, a cardboard reproduction of the original geometric and military compass of G. Galilei. Out of print
• Truci I., Le anamorfosi di J.F. Niceron (The Anamorphoses of J.F. Niceron), Florence, Giunti Barbèra, 1976, with a mirrored cylinder attached. Out of print
• Landini M., L'orologio solare (The Sundial), Florence, Giunti Barbèra, 1975, with, attached, a wooden reproduction of a sundial. Out of print
• Felli M., L'orologio notturno (The Nocturnal Clock), Florence, Arnaud, 1974, with, attached, a cardboard reproduction of the original noctural clock of Girolamo della Volpaia (1568). Out of print
• Termometro clinico dell'Accademia del Cimento (Clinical Thermometer of the Accademia del Cimento), Florence, Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, undated, printed card, in Italian and English, with, attached, a glass reproduction of the original frog-shaped thermometer. Out of print