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TYCHO BRAHE´S SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS.
BLAEU, WILLEM - JOAN. 14 engraved plates from Blaeu´ Atlas Maior. Amsterdam 1662.

14 contemporary coloured engraved plans and plates of Tycho Brahe´s scientific instruments and astronomical observatory including map of the island of Hven and Uraniborg (Uranienborg), of which 5 double-page, 1 text illustration. Size about 467x570 mm for double page plates, and 273x420 mm. Text leaves paginated 53-98. Latin edition. See titles below.

These plates were included in Blaeu´s Atlas Major which was published in 12 volumes between 1662 and 1667. The present come from the first part containing Arctica and Europa, books 1-2 (Norway, Denmark, Sleswig) and with a separate chapter on the astronomer Tycho Brahe, who was Blaeus former teacher.

Tycho Brahe (1546 - 1601), worked from 1576-97 on the island of Hven (Ven), where he constructed his observatories
The observatory and mansion named Uranienborg, after Urania, the muse of astronomy, was the first building in Scandinavia in Gothic Renaissance style. Researchers and and students from abroad, especially the Netherlands and Germany, visited Hven to study the construction of astronomical instruments, the techniques and astronomical observations---. Willem Blaeu spent the winter 1595-96 on Hven as Brahe´s student and probably drew his map of Hven then, perhaps copying that of his teacher, published in 1596.--- The map of Hven was probably Willem Blaeu´s very first map. The cartographic publishing house of Willem Blaeu and his sons would become one of the most important mapmaking establishments in the world in the seventeenth century (Geographers Biobibliographical Studies, vol. 27, Ed. Withers - Lorimer).

1. Insula Hvaena sive Venusia (double-page, rubbing with minor loss in the middle, about 0,5 cms, minor fold)
2. Arcis Uraniburgi (double-page, small spot in margins)
3. Orthographia praecipuae domus arcis Uraniburgi (double-page)
4. Ichnographia praecipuae domus arcis Uraniburgi (double-page)
5. Sextans astronomicus prout altitudinibus inservit
6. Armillae Aeqvatoriae
7. Instrumentum parallaticum + Instrumentum parallaticum Tychonis Brahe (2 engravings on 1 plate)
8. Armailla Aeqvatoriae (opposite textpage cut down and with reinforced margins)
9. Effigies Tyhonis Brahe (cut to platemark, two minor losses in upper part)
10. Stellaeburgum sive Observatorium subterraneum, a Tychone Brahe (double-page)
11. Iconographia Stellaeburgi (engraved illustration, ca 265x260 mm, with text underneath)
12. Armillae aeqvatoriae maximae (small spot to lower margin)
13. Sextans astronomicus trigonicus
14. Qvadrans magnus chalibeus
15. Qvadrans voubilis Azimutalis

Provenance: From the estate of Dr Peter Wallenberg (1926-2015).

Auktionsnummer:

6201

Datum:

2016-12-20