Eufrosino della Volpaia (Florence, ... - France, ...) was an Italian inventor and watchmaker.
Clockworker, builder and inventor of scientific instruments, Eufrosino went on, like the brothers Benvenuto (1486-1532) and Camillo (1484-1560), the activity of Father Lorenzo (1446-1512). Of 1516 it is his first dated and signed clock, today at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich. In 1520 he built the night watch at the Galileo Museum in Florence (inv. 3264) and, in 1525, the astrolabe of the British Museum in London. In Venice, where he stayed in 1530, he designed a tool to measure the distances and heights documented in the manuscript notebook of Brother Benvenuto, kept at the Marciana Library in Venice. He also worked as an architect in 1534 to work for the Fortezza da Basso, designed by Antonio da Sangallo (1483-1546).
He was also an experienced cartographer. In 1542 he built a terrestrial globe, which is now in the New York's Hepatic Society of America, and in 1547 he carried out the Map of the Roman Campaign at Paul III's time, which is of fundamental importance for historical cartographic research.
She died in France, as we know from the "Notebook" of Benvenuto, unknown date. Voices correlateemodify wikitesto Links externalize the wikitesto
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