Folder 1
Container
Contains 1 Collection or Record:
Atlas Major: Orthographia Praecipae Domus Arcvis Vraniburg, 1662
File — Folder: 1
Identifier: Folder 2
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