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    Image number: RS.9129
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    Tycho Brahe's mural quadrant

    Date
    1602
    Object type
    Library reference
    30710
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    height (print): 250mm
    width (print): 150mm
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    Description
    Tycho Brahe's mural quadrant (‘Quadrans muralis sive Tichonicus’) in his Uraniborg observatory on the island of Hven. Illustration from Astronomia instauratae mechanica, by Tycho Brahe (Nuremberg, 1602).
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