File:Uraniborg main building.jpg

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Author
Creator:Willem Blaeu after
Tycho Brahe  (1546–1601)  wikidata:Q36620 s:en:Author:Tycho Ottesen Brahe q:it:Tycho Brahe
 
Tycho Brahe
Alternative names
Tyge Ottesen Brahe;
Description astronomer, alchemist, cartographer and printer
Date of birth/death 14 December 1546 Edit this at Wikidata 24 October 1601 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Knutstorps slott (Knutstorp Castle), Skåne (Scania) Prague
Work period 1560 - 1601
Work location
Denmark, Rostock, Augsburg, Hven, Prague
Authority file
creator QS:P170,Q36620
Description
Hand-colored copper-plate engraving of the main building of Tycho Brahe's Uraniborg palace-observatory (built ca 1576-1580) from Joan Blaeu's Atlas Maior (1663), based on a woodcut from Brahe's Astronomiæ instauratæ mechanica (1598)
Date between 1662 and 1665
date QS:P571,+1662-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1662-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1665-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Medium Hand-colored copper-plate engraving
Dimensions 46 × 56 cm (18.1 × 22 in)
institution QS:P195,Q1670994
Source/Photographer Blaeu's Atlas Major, https://maps.nls.uk/atlas/blaeu-maior/browse/1/page/120

See also

  • The illustration from Brahe's book Astronomiæ instauratæ mechanica (1598), on which Blaeu's illustration is based
    The illustration from Brahe's book Astronomiæ instauratæ mechanica (1598), on which Blaeu's illustration is based
  • Woodcut of Tycho Brahe's Uraniborg palace-observatory from his 1598 book Astronomiæ instauratæ mechanica
    Woodcut of Tycho Brahe's Uraniborg palace-observatory from his 1598 book Astronomiæ instauratæ mechanica
  • Orthographic woodcut of Tycho Brahe's underground observatory Stellæburgi from his 1598 book Astronomiæ instauratæ mechanica
    Orthographic woodcut of Tycho Brahe's underground observatory Stellæburgi from his 1598 book Astronomiæ instauratæ mechanica
  • Hand-colored copper-plate engraving of Tycho Brahe's Uraniborg palace-observatory from Joan Blaeu's Atlas Maior, 1662-5 Volume 1.
    Hand-colored copper-plate engraving of Tycho Brahe's Uraniborg palace-observatory from Joan Blaeu's Atlas Maior, 1662-5 Volume 1.
  • Hand-colored copper-plate engraving of Tycho Brahe’s Stjerneborg observatory from Joan Blaeu's Atlas Maior (1663)
    Hand-colored copper-plate engraving of Tycho Brahe’s Stjerneborg observatory from Joan Blaeu's Atlas Maior (1663)

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