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The Museum of Zoology and Natural History, best known as La Specola, is an eclectic natural history museum in Florence, central Italy, located next to the Pitti Palace. The name Specola means observatory, a reference to the astronomical observatory founded there in 1790. It now forms part of the Museo di Storia Naturale di Firenze. This museum is part of what are now six different collections at four different sites for the Museo di Storia Naturale di Firenze.

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La Specola

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best known as La Specola, is an eclectic natural history museum in Florence, central Italy, located next to the Pitti Palace. The name Specola means observatory...

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Specola

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observatory. Among these: La Specola - Natural history museum in Florence, Italy Palazzotto Specola in Pisa, now Domus Galileana Villa Specola di Lucca near Lucca...

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Museo di Storia Naturale di Firenze

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by items from Captain James Cook's voyages in the Pacific. Zoologia "La Specola" (Via Romana, 17) - A major collection of some 3 million zoological specimens...

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Waldemar Fuchs

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German entomologist who specialised in Coleoptera. His collection is in La Specola in Florence. Data related to Waldemar Fuchs at Wikispecies v t e v t e...

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Bordighera

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the building in 1909, enlarged and built in the gardens of the Villa La Specola his workshop. Town hall of Bordighera, which was the old municipal schools...

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The Scream

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ISBN 3925402969. Ziemendorff, Stefan (10 July 2014). "La momia de un sarcófago de la cultura Chachapoyas en la obra de Paul Gauguin" [A mummy from a sarcophagus...

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Fauna of Italy

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Italian fauna are: Civico Museo di Storia Naturale di Trieste, Trieste La Specola, the Museum of Zoology and Natural History of Florence Museo Civico di...

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Alpiscorpius gamma

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mouth of Rižana river in Slovene Istria and kept in the collection of La Specola museum (Florence, Italy) was named type specimen. In 2019 the species...

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Hollow Man

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Inspired after his daughter bought him books on the subject of écorchés at La Specola in Florence, Verhoeven enlisted special effects supervisor Scott Anderson...

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Reale Museo di Fisica e Storia Naturale

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collections remained in the Torrigiani Palace, which is today home to La Specola Museum. Botanical specimens were gathered in the Giardino dei Semplici...

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Gaetano Giulio Zumbo

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specimens (now displayed in the Section of the Natural History Museum called La Specola). Zumbo left Florence for Genoa. There he completed wax sculptures: a...

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Felice Fontana

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at the University of Pisa. He was involved in the establishment of the La Specola museum in Florence. Fontana was born at Casa Fontana, Pomarolo, Val Lagarina...

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Florence

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Museum of the Cloister of Santa Maria Novella, the Zoological Museum ("La Specola"), the Museo Bardini, and the Museo Horne. There is also a collection...

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Palazzo Strozzi

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Fotografia Museo Nazionale di San Marco Museo di Storia Naturale di Firenze La Specola National Archaeological Museum Orsanmichele Ospedale degli Innocenti Palazzo...

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Specola di Lucca

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moved in 1825 to teach astronomy at La Specola in Florence. The projected cylindrical observation tower for the Specola di Lucca was never built. The building...

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Padua

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Astronomical clock, as seen from Piazza dei Signori View from the top of La Specola Padua has long been acclaimed for its university, founded in 1222. Under...

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Francesco Antonio Boi

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whose friend Felice Fontana (1730-1805) was the founder and director of La Specola Wax Museum. Charles Felix (1765-1831), the younger brother of King Victor...

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Villa Mariani

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Superintendence for Architectural Heritage and Landscape. The artist's workshop, La Specola, is located in the garden of the villa and was built by the architect...

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Zerynthia rumina

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Roger Verity Collection in La Specola, form names of Zerynthia...

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Montmorency series

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crates from La Specola, the second is revealed to contain George's body, shot and delivered by none other than the curator of La Specola. He was working...

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Italian stream frog

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degli studi di Firenze, Museo di storia naturale sezione di zoologia La Specola. 379 pp. (in Italian). Razzetti, Edoardo; Sacchi, Roberto; Platz, James...

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Fernandino Maria Piccioli

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Coleoptera and his Hymenoptera, Diptera, Lepidoptera and other Orders are in La Specola museum. He died at Sesto Fiorentino in 1900. Conci, C. & Poggi, R. 1996:...

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Monument to Dante

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Fotografia Museo Nazionale di San Marco Museo di Storia Naturale di Firenze La Specola National Archaeological Museum Orsanmichele Ospedale degli Innocenti Palazzo...

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