Braun & Hogenberg

LB7193

Denmark, Sweden >
the island Ven in the Sound

"Topographia Insulae Huenae in celebri porthmo Regni Daniae ..."

Map of the island Ven in the Sund with two contemporary views of Uranienborg (Uraniburgum), the observatory of the astronomer Tycho Brahe. He left this place in 1597, to become astronomer at the court of Rudolf II in Prague.

Col. copper engraving, Cologne c1586,
34,5 x 48,5 cm.

€ 750,-

 

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