File:Uraniborgskiss 90.jpg

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Hand-colored copper-plate engraving of Tycho Brahe's Uraniborg palace-observatory from Joan Blaeu's Atlas Maior, 1662-5 Volume 1, based on a woodcut Brahe published in Brahe's own 1598 book Astronomiæ instauratæ mechanica

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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

A hand-colored copper-plate engraving of Tycho Brahe's Uraniborg palace-observatory from Joan Blaeu's Atlas Maior, 1662-5 Volume 1, based on a woodcut published in Brahe's own 1598 book Astronomiæ instauratæ mechanica.

This is his plan of the gardens, with the main building in the centre and servants' quarters, a printing studio, and other buildings just inside the outer walls. Note that Tycho's design was influenced by buildings he had seen in Venice, and was also constructed in a highly geometrical form. The castle and its ground were perfectly oriented in the points of the compass.

For a poorer quality scan see [1]. For a medium resolution scan with more details see File:Uraniborgskiss 45.jpg.
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 Maior, 1662-5 Volume 1

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See also

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  • The woodcut from Brahe's book Astronomiæ instauratæ mechanica (1598), on which Blaeu's engraving is based
    The woodcut from Brahe's book Astronomiæ instauratæ mechanica (1598), on which Blaeu's engraving is based
  • lower resolution scan
    lower resolution scan
  • scan from a 1598 copy at the Sächsische Landesbibliothek, Inv.-Nr. S.B.14
    scan from a 1598 copy at the Sächsische Landesbibliothek, Inv.-Nr. S.B.14
  • scan from a 1602 copy at the Sächsische Landesbibliothek, Inv.-Nr. Astron.82,misc.1
    scan from a 1602 copy at the Sächsische Landesbibliothek, Inv.-Nr. Astron.82,misc.1
  • central building
    central building

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  • 2004-07-04 20:48 Wikibob 1000×821×8 (327510 bytes) A painting of Tycho Brahe's Uraniborg palace-observatory from his 1598 book - highest resolution
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