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:: Miscellaneous ::
Species Tychonis Brahe, Tycho Brahe's Herbs
Present day medicine container from Danish pharmacy
Rundetarn, Copenhagen (inv no. U3-8)
Retort and fragments of retorts and crucibles used for alchemistic experiments
Discovered at Rosenholm Castle, Hornslet, Denmark when the moat was being cleared. The castle was the home of Holger Rosenkranz, a good friend of Tycho Brahe's and married to his neice. He had a private university there devoted to alchemy
Rosenholm Castle, Hornslet, Danmark
Torch holder
The relief on the torch holder shows Tycho Brahe in armour, a sign of nobility, exactly like the monument on his grave in the Teyn Church in Prague. It may have been used in Tycho's funeral procession? Kulturen in Lund (inv no. KM 36998). See Kulturen's Yearbook 1946 p.12
"A piece of alchemistic gold, and the lead from which it was made by the Count of Hessen-Homborg"
Rosenborg Castle, Copenhagen
Epitaph for Tycho Brahe's parents and their children in Kageröd's Church
Metal plate with a poem by Tycho Brahe dedicated to his daughter Christine, The Church of Maria in Helsingborg Brass plate dedicated to Tycho's son Claudius, Väsby Church, see Cassiopeia 1946, p. 99
Pew ends to Brahe's church pew
Saint Ibb's old church
Altar-piece painted by Tycho Brahe's painter Tobias Gemperlin, perhaps commissioned by T.B.?, see Saint Ibb's Old Church by Evald Gustavsson |
