Dinesh's photos with the keyword: Tycho
Brahe
10 Jan 2022 |
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Brahe’s observatory: the curved scale is a quadrant for measuring elevations
That is built in the wall; inside it is a ‘trompe l’oeil’ section of Brahe’s observatory With a giant figure of Brahe himself. The image comes from the 1598 painting
Of his ‘Astronomiae instauratae mchanica.’ In the painting above the
Quadrant was done in 1587 by Hans Knieper, Hans van Steenwinckel the Edler
And Tobias Gemperle, who were responsible, respectively, for the painting of
The landscape at the top, the three pairs of arches representing the three
Areas Uraniborg and the portrait of Brahe.
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