File:Uraniborgskiss 90.jpg
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Summary
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Creator:Willem Blaeu after
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A hand-colored copper-plate engraving of Tycho Brahe's Uraniborg palace-observatory from Joan Blaeu's Atlas Maior, 1662-5 Volume 1, based on a woodcut This is his plan of the gardens, with the main building in the centre and servants' quarters, a printing studio, and other buildings just inside the outer walls. Note that Tycho's design was influenced by buildings he had seen in Venice, and was also constructed in a highly geometrical form. The castle and its ground were perfectly oriented in the points of the compass. For a poorer quality scan see [1]. For a medium resolution scan with more details see File:Uraniborgskiss 45.jpg. |
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| Date | between 1662 and 1665 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Medium | Hand-colored copper-plate engraving | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Dimensions | 46 × 56 cm (18.1 × 22 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Source/Photographer | Blaeu's Atlas Maior, 1662-5 Volume 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Licensing
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See also
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The woodcut from Brahe's book Astronomiæ instauratæ mechanica (1598), on which Blaeu's engraving is based -
lower resolution scan -
scan from a 1598 copy at the Sächsische Landesbibliothek, Inv.-Nr. S.B.14 -
scan from a 1602 copy at the Sächsische Landesbibliothek, Inv.-Nr. Astron.82,misc.1 -
central building
![[1]](http://www.tychobrahe.com/p8images/urandgarden_c60.jpg){kind=link}
- File:Tycho_Hven.jpg - Tycho Brahe depicted himself inside Uraniborg
Original upload log
- 2004-07-04 20:48 Wikibob 1000×821×8 (327510 bytes) A painting of Tycho Brahe's Uraniborg palace-observatory from his 1598 book - highest resolution
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File history
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| current | 19:53, 8 November 2019 | | 9,065 × 6,613 (13.9 MB) | imagescommonswiki>Typometer | Higher resolution, taken from https://maps.nls.uk/atlas/blaeu-maior/browse/1/page/118 |
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- File:Uraniborgskiss 90.jpg from Wikimedia Commons
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