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Astronomy

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

"An elementary treatise on quaternions" with letter from Bengt Stromgren to E.A. Milne

 Unprocessed — Box Communal Accessions 6
Identifier: 20150416.2
Dates: 1947
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections

Collection of Tycho Brahe engravings

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSP 326
Scope and Contents 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; Majority of material found in 1662; Other: Date acquired: 07/11/2013
Found in: Purdue University Archives and Special Collections / Collection of Tycho Brahe engravings