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Does anyone know what the object under Venus is in Virgil Solis’s Personifications of the Seven Planets (Die Tag der VIII Planete) engravings? I thought it looked like a pair of dividers/proportional compasses because of the hinge and pointed legs, but I can’t tell if it’s supposed to symbolize something else. The Libra glyph is right above it which threw me off. Curious if anyone here knows Renaissance astrology/iconography stuff and it driving me up a wall that I am kinda sure but not 100%