Modelling the heavens? Astronomical instruments and mechanical clocks | cabinet

Carlo Plato, Armillary Sphere (1588)

Prescribed

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Arsenius, Astrolabe (1565)

Prescribed

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Rolling Ball Clock, Augsburg, c. 1600

Not prescribed

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