Medicean

British

/ -ˈtʃiː-, ˌmɛdɪˈsiːən /

adjective

of or relating to the Medici, the Italian family of bankers, merchants, and rulers of Florence and Tuscany, prominent in Italian political and cultural history in the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries

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Details of jewelry, furniture and architectural backdrops take on greater power, situating their subjects within the dynastic and cultural politics of the Medicean regime.

From Washington Post

Scientific discoverers have often claimed the right to name their discoveries, in imitation of the discoverers of new lands—Ingrassia named the stirrup bone, Galileo named the moons of Jupiter the Medicean planets, and Lavoisier named oxygen.

From Literature

Evelyn recorded a suggestion that the Society might take as its coat of arms a representation of a pair of crossed telescopes surmounted by the Medicean planets.

From Literature

Just how new this was is indicated by Galileo’s attempt in 1610, when he was naming the newly discovered moons of Jupiter ‘the Medicean stars’, to find a precedent for naming a star after a person.

From Literature

Craftily, he named them the Medicean Stars in honour of Cosimo II de’ Medici, the grand duke of Tuscany.

From Nature

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