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history, science, technology, astronomical, instrument, star, heaven, name, astronomer, database, astrolabe, sun dial

The Museo della Specola thus reflects the development and evolution of astronomical instruments over more than a century, from the beginning of the XVIIIth to well into the XIXth century. The history of these instruments can be followed in some detail through the many existing inventories and the annotations recorded in the observation registers of the Specola, as well as in the documents preserved in the Archives of the Department of Astronomy.