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 published in Brahe's own 1598 book Astronomiæ instauratæ mechanica.
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.
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See also
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
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 Brahe published in Brahe's own 1598 book Astronomiæ instauratæ mechanica
Ingekleurde gravure van het slot uit Tycho Brahes Astronomiae instauratae mechanica (1598)
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