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Title: Copernican System of the Heavens
Format: photograph: negative
Date: 1602
Series: History of Science
Description: Folio leaf, colored by hand from the Spanish language edition of Atlas mayor o Geographia Blaviana. Printed by J. Blaeu, Amsterdam 1659). Note this is a color photo. - Fine Artprints, Watson Collection.

Title: The great brass globe, from Tycho Brahe, Astronomiae Instauratae Mechanica
Format: photograph: negative
Date: 1602

Title: Small quadrant of gilt brass, from Tycho Brahe, Astronomiae Instauratae Mechanica
Format: photograph: negative
Date: 1602

Title: Another azimuth quadrant of brass, from Tycho Brahe, Astronomiae Instauratae Mechanica
Format: photograph: negative
Date: 1602

Title: The mural or Tychonian quadrant, from Tycho Brahe, Astronomiae Instauratae Mechanica
Format: photograph: negative
Date: 1602

Title: Revolving azimuth quadrant, from Tycho Brahe, Astronomiae Instauratae Mechanica
Format: photograph: negative
Date: 1602

Title: Equatorial armillary instrument, from Tycho Brahe, Astronomiae instauratae Mechanica
Format: photograph: negative
Date: 1602

Title: Portrait of Tycho Brahe, from Astronomiae Instauratae Mechanica
Format: photograph: negative
Date: 1602
Description: The engraved portrait by Jacob de Gheyn first appeared as a frontispiece in Tycho’s Astronomical Letters of 1596 and was later reprinted. It was done in 1586 when Tycho was 40 years old. He is shown wearing the Danish Order of the Elephant.

Title: Great steel quadrant confined in a square and standing on an azimuth horizon of steel, from Tycho Brahe, Astronomiae Instauratae Mechanica
Format: photograph: negative
Date: 1602

Title: Zodiacal armillary instrument, from Tycho Brahe, Astronomiae Instauratae Mechanica
Format: photograph: negative
Date: 1602

Title: The great equatorial armillary instrument with one complete circle and one semicircle, from Tycho Brahe, Astronomiae Instauratae Mechanica
Format: photograph: negative
Date: 1602

Title: The great quadrant constructed near Augsburg, from Tycho Brahe, Astronomiae Instauratae Mechanica. The quadrant was constructed in 1572 and was no longer standing when Tycho published the description of it in 1598.
Format: photograph: negative
Date: 1602

Title: Great steel quadrant, inscribed in a square, also of steel, and revolving in azimuth, from Tycho Brahe, Astronomiae Instauratae Mechanica
Format: photograph: negative
Date: 1602

Title: Plan of the Uraniborg observatory and premises, from Tycho Brahe, Astronomiae Instauratae Mechanica
Format: photograph: negative
Date: 1602

Title: Great azimuth semicircle, from Tycho Brahe, Astronomiae Instauratae Mechanica
Format: photograph: negative
Date: 1602

Title: Medium-sized azimuth quadrant of brass, from Tycho Brahe, Astronomiae Instauratae Mechanica
Format: photograph: negative
Date: 1602

Title: Perspective rendering and plan of the main building of Uraniborg on the island of Hven, built by Tycho Brahe about 1580, from Tycho Brahe, Astronomiae Instauratae Mechanica
Format: photograph: negative
Date: 1602

Title: Mounting of the steel sextant for observations of altitudes, from Tycho Brahe, Astronomiae Instauratae Mechanica
Format: photograph: negative
Date: 1602

Title: Perspective rendering and plan of the Stjerneborg (Stellaburg) observatory on the island of Hven, from Tycho Brahe, Astronomiae Instauratae Mechanica
Format: photograph: negative
Date: 1602

Title: Astronomical sextant for measuring altitudes, from Tycho Brahe, Astronomiae Instauratae Mechanica
Format: photograph: negative
Date: 1602