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TRIBUNE OF GALILEUS.
some reptiles and fishes, which for their size have not found
room in the halls.
The portico is surrounded with windows; it contains fossile
bones of extraordinary size. — The Giardino Botanico, (Braccia -
20,811) is annexed to the Museum. The hall opposite to
the staircase, contains other fossile bones, found in Valdarno
Superiore. After this hall destined to the lectures on compared -
Anatomy, of Zoology, of Botany, Mineralogy, and Geology, -
we pass into many others, containing different instruments -
for the study of Natural Philosophy.
The first of these rooms, is destined to the Lectures on
experimental physics, and contains several lineal measures,
and solid, and other instruments necessary to geodetical operations. -
The second hall, is destined to mechanics; and contains -
all such machines, as are requisite to demonstrate the
laws on equilibrium, and movement. — In the third room are
hydrostatical and hydrodinamical instruments, with severat
models of hydraulic machines. — The room contiguous, contains -
the machines apt to demonstrate the chemical nature of
the air and of all gazes. — In the fifth room are the electric
machines. — In the sixth are all the preparations necessary
to prove the nature and particularities of the electric fluid,
from Volta’s battery, to the electricity applied to magnetisme
— The seventh hall cuntains a quantity of loadstone, natural
and artificial; and several mariner’s compasses, to measure
the decline, and the intensity of the magnetic fluid. — Lastly
in the eight room, are the preparations requisite, to demonstrate -
the different proprieties or virtues, of the light and the
refless of the solar rays, and a rich collection of instruments,
according to the laws of optics.
Tribune of Galileus.
One enters this handsome hall, on the right of the first
vestibule; its architecture is by the Cav. Martelli.
We shall note the paintings and sculptures, from the right
of the door.
