Epact Scientific Instruments of Medieval and Renaissance Europe

Unusually, the dial has two separate innermost rings, which must be adjusted until sun-light passes through two holes in them, when the time is read off from the position of the double ring against the hour scales.

Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, Firenze
Inventory no. 2452

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