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Image number: RS.9133
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Tycho Brahe's second equatorial armillary sphere
Date
1602
Object type
Library reference
30710
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Dimensions
height (print): 250mm
width (print): 140mm
width (print): 140mm
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Description
Tycho Brahe's second equatorial armillary sphere (‘Armillae aliae aequatoriae’) in his Uraniborg observatory on the island of Hven. Illustration from Astronomia instauratae mechanica, by Tycho Brahe (2nd ed., Nuremberg, 1602).
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