Egnazio Danti’s Terrestrial Globe and Entire Geographic Room – Palazzo Vecchio
Egnazio Danti, a Dominican monk and the cosmographer of the Grand Duke Cosimo I de’ Medici, created maps that decorated the walls of the Map Room of Palazzo Vecchio. Danti also worked as an instrument maker and his writings on the construction and use of the astrolabe and on astronomy were widely read. He was […]