Years later, Dondi was included as one of the choices in the book The Fifty Worst Films of All Time.
In 1947, the Gilchrists returned to Angola, this time to Dondi.
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In the introduction, Dondi writes that his machine was built in accordance with the 13th-century Theorica planetarum of Campano di Novara, and to demonstrate the validity of the descriptions of the motion of heavenly bodies of Aristotle and Avicenna.
After a visit to Germany, he created Dondi in 1955 with Irwin Hasen.
One of the few existing full size replicas of Giovanni de'Dondi's Astrarium, the fabled clockwork driven 14th century mechanism showing the movement of sun, moon and the planets.
In March 1344, a clock was added to the tower of the palace by Giacomo Dondi.