Four hundred and twenty-five years later : Egnazio Danti's anemoscope / Gemma Rosa Levi-Donati.
Abstract:
In 1577 the Dominican priest Egnazio Danti (1536-1586), at the time Magister at the University of Bologna, made a brief visit to his home town of Perugia, where he designed and installed for the Governor's Palace an anemoscope of his own invention. Some four hundred and twenty-five year later, precious pieces of this antique instrument have been rediscovered among the parts of antiques instruments of the Civic Museum of the City of Perugia, conserved in the National Museum of Archaeology, Archaeological Superintendence of Umbria. On the basis of a careful historical and iconographical analysis, this Renaissance era instrument is described in its entirety
Nuncius A. 18, fasc. 2 (2003), p. 467-479