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Image number: RS.9129
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Tycho Brahe's mural quadrant
Date
1602
Object type
Library reference
30710
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 250mm
width (print): 150mm
width (print): 150mm
Subject
Content object
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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