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Image number: RS.9137
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Tycho Brahe's great brass globe
Date
1602
Object type
Library reference
30710
Material
Technique
Dimensions
height (print): 250mm
width (print): 150mm
width (print): 150mm
Subject
Content object
Description
Engraving of Tycho Brahe's great brass globe (‘Globus magnus orichalcicus’), 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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