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:: Globes and Instruments ::
Sky Globe
1560
Rundetarn in Copenhagen (Inv no. C1-3)
Francois de Montgenet's sky globe
1560
(copperplate engraving, 1927 mounted on a wooden sphere) Rundetarn, Copenhagen (Inv no. C1-3)
Sky globe
W.J Blaeu
1606 Rundetarn, Copenhagen (Inv no. C1-1)
Sky globe
W.J Blaeu
1603 Rundetarn, Copenhagen (Inv no. C1-2). The Dutchman Willem Janszoon Blaeu was one of Tycho Brahe's pupils and assistants. After Blaeu left Hven in 1596, he started his own production of sky globes based on Tycho's model. Blaeu's globes were not astronomical instrument, they were sold as decorative objects to rich and interested people.
Sky globe
W.J Blaeu
1603 Lund's Museum of History. See Landskronaboken ("The Book of Landskrona") 1976 p. 75.
Jacob's Rod or "Astronomical radius"
15th century, copy
Rundetarn, Copenhagen (Inv no. F1-11)
Copy of Tycho Brahe's sextant
Rundetarn, Copenhagen (Inv no. F2-19).
Copy of sextant that was used for measurements of the New Star's position in 1572.
Geometric quadrant for measuring the elevation of stars and the sun.
approx.1600
Rundetarn, Copenhagen (Inv no. F1-9)
Astrolabe
Martin Weiler
1590 Skokloster Castle (inv no. 10576) The astrolabe was used primarily in astrology to draw up birth horoscopes.
Armillary sphere which was said to be a present from Tycho Brahe to Christian IV
National Museum, Copenhagen(Inv no. D 194/1991)
Copy of Tycho Brahe's Equatorial Armillary Sphere from 1584
Steno Museum, Arhus, Denmark.
Copy of Galileo Galilei's astronomical telescope
Rundetarn, Copenhagen (Inv no. E1-20)
Copy of Tycho Brahe's Steel Quadrant from 1584
Tycho Brahe Museum at Ven, Sweden
Copy of Tycho Brahe's Astronomical Sextant from 1584
Tycho Brahe Museum at Ven, Sweden
Notes:
At Skokloster Castle there is a collection of historic scientific instruments. Literature: A. Losman & I. Sigurdsson, Äldre vetenskapliga instrument pa Skokloster, ("Historic Scientific Instruments at Skokloster") 1975. Nothing there belonged to Tycho Brahe, but some items are almost certainly from that period or thereabouts, for example the astrolabe from the 1500's (inv no. 10552, cross bar from 1661 (inv no. 10588), triangulation instrument from 1656 (inv no. 10598). |
