Clockmakers, makers and collectors of scientific instruments in Verona in the first half of the 19th Century

In the first half of the 19th century, a positive technical-scientific environment developed in Verona, thanks to the fortunate presence of the physicist Giuseppe Zamboni, designer of several and important scientific instruments, professor of experimental physics and member of the "Acade- my of Agriculture". Zamboni was able to gather around his lively scientific activities a good deal of local people devoted most of all to precision me- chanics and to the study of experimental sciences and their apparatuses. These people's activities mainly revolved around two important institutions in the city of Verona: the "Imperial real Liceo Convitto" and the "Academy of Agriculture, Commerce and Arts". Among these people, Gaetano Span- dri's work stands out: he was a friend and collaborator of Zamboni's, an en- thusiast of physical sciences, a private collector and a maker of scientific instruments. The paper will also consider other Veronese mechanicians' scientific activity, who worked with the "Academy of Agriculture" and with Zamboni, contributing to the creation of innovative scientific instruments.