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Joan Blaeu's "Atlas Major", published in Amsterdam in 1662, consists of 593 plates bound in nine to twelve volumes. Engravings in volume one show Tycho Brahe's instruments in his observatory in Denmark. An armillary sphere.
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Joan Blaeu's "Atlas Major", published in Amsterdam in 1662, consists of 593...

Joan Blaeu's "Atlas Major", published in Amsterdam in 1662, consists of 593 plates bound in nine to twelve volumes. Engravings in volume one show Tycho Brahe's instruments in his observatory in Denmark. A quadrant.
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Joan Blaeu's "Atlas Major", published in Amsterdam in 1662, consists of 593...

Joan Blaeu's "Atlas Major", published in Amsterdam in 1662, consists of 593 plates bound in nine to twelve volumes. Volume I: Dutch ships observe a "marvellous meteor" during their voyage.
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Joan Blaeu's "Atlas Major", published in Amsterdam in 1662, consists of 593...

Joan Blaeu's "Atlas Major", published in Amsterdam in 1662, consists of 593 plates bound in nine to twelve volumes. Volume I: Tycho Brahe's observatory Uranienborg castle (built 1633) on the Danish island Vehn, given to him by Danish king Frederick II.
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Joan Blaeu's "Atlas Major", published in Amsterdam in 1662, consists of 593...

Joan Blaeu's "Atlas Major", published in Amsterdam in 1662, consists of 593 plates bound in nine to twelve volumes. Volume I: Tycho Brahe's observatory Uranienborg castle (built 1633) on the Danish island Hven, given to him by Danish king Frederick II.
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Joan Blaeu's "Atlas Major", published in Amsterdam in 1662, consists of 593...

Joan Blaeu's "Atlas Major", published in Amsterdam in 1662, consists of 593 plates bound in nine to twelve volumes. Volume I:Tycho Brahe, aged forty, "designer of astronomical instruments" teaching in his observatory Uranienborg castle on the island Hven.
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Joan Blaeu's "Atlas Major", published in Amsterdam in 1662, consists of 593...

Joan Blaeu's "Atlas Major", published in Amsterdam in 1662, consists of 593 plates bound in nine to twelve volumes. Volume I: Tycho Brahe's observatory Uranienborg castle in the Denish island Hven, a present from Danish king Frederick II.
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Joan Blaeu's "Atlas Major", published in Amsterdam in 1662, consists of 593...

Mecia de Villadeste,map from a Catalonian atlas,1413.
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Mecia de Villadeste,map from a Catalonian atlas,1413.

Atlas of the World,after Ptolemy,Ulm edition. German engravings,1486. See also 15-04-02/59,the bust of Ptolemy on a choirstall in Ulm Cathedral.Ptolemy was much admired by German Hunmanists.
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Atlas of the World,after Ptolemy,Ulm edition. German engravings,1486....

Southern hemisphere,celestial and terrestrial,fol.28. From the "Atlas coelestis seu harmonia macrocosmica: scenographia compagnis mundae Brahea" by Gerard Valk (1651-1726)and Pieter Schenk(1660-1719),printed 1708. Coloured engraving.
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Southern hemisphere,celestial and terrestrial,fol.28. From the "Atlas coelesti...

The constellations.From "Phenomenes d'Aratus" Ms.188,folio 30,France, around 1000.
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The constellations.From "Phenomenes d'Aratus" Ms.188,folio 30,France,...

The constellations.From "Phenomenes d'Aratus" Ms.188,folio 20,France, around 1000.
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The constellations.From "Phenomenes d'Aratus" Ms.188,folio 20,France,...