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EARLY 19TH CENTURY
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an unusual sistema copernicum
Early 19th Century
The polygonal wood frame pasted on each surface with engraved descriptive charts showing the system with mathematical corrections and diagrams, with marbled paper top - on turned fruitwood stand
34.5cm. high
Early 19th Century
The polygonal wood frame pasted on each surface with engraved descriptive charts showing the system with mathematical corrections and diagrams, with marbled paper top - on turned fruitwood stand
34.5cm. high
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This "Sistema Copernicum" is an Italian eclipse lecturn. The style of hexagonal lecturn was a popular demonstration that was in use in Italy from the 16th Century onwards. The prints are 18th Century originals taken from Rouhault's Physica dating from the 1730's and were pasted on the fascia of the lecturn at the time of it's construction, circa 1840. The wooden pillar is turned in walnut wood, typical of the Italian instrument makers of the first half of the 19th Century. The marble paper on the top is Florentine in origin.
Examples are rarely encountered out of their Italian institutional locations.
This "Sistema Copernicum" is an Italian eclipse lecturn. The style of hexagonal lecturn was a popular demonstration that was in use in Italy from the 16th Century onwards. The prints are 18th Century originals taken from Rouhault's Physica dating from the 1730's and were pasted on the fascia of the lecturn at the time of it's construction, circa 1840. The wooden pillar is turned in walnut wood, typical of the Italian instrument makers of the first half of the 19th Century. The marble paper on the top is Florentine in origin.
Examples are rarely encountered out of their Italian institutional locations.