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:: Timepieces ::
Pocket sundial that belonged to Frederick II.
National Museum, Copenhagen. (Inv no. D 140)
It contains several small astronomical instruments. The sundial is probably made for use at a latitude corresponding to Augsburg's. It was here that Tycho Brahe was staying before he was called home to Denmark by Frederick II. The sundial may have been a gift from Tycho to the king
Clock
1623
National Museum, Copenhagen (Inv no. D 138) Tycho Brahe had the same type of clocks. It is driven by weights. A foliot, a balancing bar, controls the speed of the clock by moving backwards and forwards and alternately catching and releasing the clock's inner wheel. The engravings on the clock's sides show Tycho Brahe and Nicolaus Copernicus and their respective world views
"Tycho Brahe's pocket watch"
1648
National Museum, Copenhagen (Inv no. D 125). For a long time it was believed to have belonged to Tycho Brahe. His family arms and the words "Tycho Brahe 1597" are engraved on the watch. But this must have been done at a later date. The manufacturer's name happens to be incised on the watch "Robert Grinlein Fleet Street fecit". Grinlein became a master craftsman in 1648. But Tycho may have owned a watch of the same type
Astronomical clock
Steffen Brenner
1567 Hallwylska Collection. It is claimed that this belonged to Tycho Brahe, which cannot be proved
Astronomical clock
1550
probably made in Augsburg It might have belonged to Tycho Brahe but there is no proof. Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, Blindern Norway See Cassiopeia |
