Box Communal Collections 83
Container
Contains 2 Collections and/or Records:
Atlas Major: Effigies Tychonis Brahe O.F. Aedificie et Instrumentorum a Domini 1578 Aetatus, 1662
File — Box: Communal Collections 83, Folder: 4
Identifier: Folder 4
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Collection of Tycho Brahe engravings (1 flat case file; 1662) contains 15 engravings (all on paper) that were once pages from Joan Blaeu’s Atlas Major. The engravings illustrate Brahe’s astronomical instruments and observations from his observatories, Uraniborg and Stjerneborg, in Hven, Sweden. Some of the paper contains two different watermarks: an elephant and Christ.
Dates:
1662
Skyline: North American Rockwell Corporation, Volume 25, Numbers 3-4, 1967; Volume 26, Numbers 1, 4, 1968; Volume 27, Numbers 1, 4, 1969
File — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSA 5, Series 13, Sub-Series 1, File 12
Scope and Contents
From the Series:
This series contains selected books and magazines from Neil Armstrong's personal library. The magazines are grouped as Armstrong had stored them, except for the second box which contains the older magazines and those from 1969. Many of the older magazines feature various astronauts on the cover or Neil Armstrong himself, with related stories inside. The issues from 1969 and early 1970s feature Apollo 11 or Armstrong on the cover and inside.
Dates:
1969