196. BLAEU - TYCHO BRAHE'S SCIENTIFIC INSTRUMENTS, 1664, with 14 engraved plates.

BLAEU, WILLEM - JUAN. 14 engraved plates from Blaeu' Atlas Maior. Amsterdam in 1664. (Tycho Brahe's Scientific Instruments).

Folio (c. 565 x 370 mm. binding). Consists of: Engraved title to “Geographia Blaviana” (a few small repairs to the outer margin, a with minor loss); 3 title leaves (Aerdklootsbeschryving, welck is het eerste deel..., First part of Aerdklootsbeschryving, Amsterdam, Blaeu, 1664, with printer's device, Eerste stuck der Aerdrycksbeschryving, Amsterdam, Blaeu, 1664, with printer's device, Eerste stuck der Aerdrycksbeschryving, Amsterdam, Eu, 1664, med printer's device; pp. 17—50.

14 contemporary engraved plans and plates of Tycho Brahe's scientific instruments and astronomical observatory including map of the island of Hven and Uraniborg (Uranienborg), of which 5 double-page, 1 text illustration. Dimensione di circa 420x530 mm per plati di pagina doble, e 273x420 mm. Text leaves paginated 17-50. Dutch edition.
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Bound in 20th century half vellum binding, only slight wear. Beige cloth case, partly browned.

Together with the plate “Ichnographia praecipuae domus arcis Uraniburgi”, handcoloured engraved plate (centrefold, tears to margins which is browned, latin edition).

These plates were included in Blaeu's Atlas Major which was published in 12 volumes between 1662 and 1667. Het arctica a Europa, knjige 1-2 (Norvegia, Danska, Sleswig) a med en Tycho Brahe, Blaeus.

Tycho Brahe (1546 - 1601), worked from 1576-97 on the island of Hven (Ven), where he constructed his observatories
Uranienborg, Urania, the muse of astronomy, was the first building in Scandinavia in Gothic Renaissance style. Hven a. Willem Blaeu spent the winter of 1595-96 on Hven as Brahe's student and probably drew his map of Hven then, perhaps copying that of his teacher, published in 1596.--- The map of Hven was probably Willem Blaeu's very first map. La casa de publicación de cartografífico de Willem Blaeu y su sono depuestos de mais importantes de la mundo en el mundo no seventeenth century (Geographers Biobibliographical Studies, vol. 27, ed. Withers - Lorimer).

Plates and maps included:
1. Island of Hvaena sive Venusia (double-page)
2. Arcis Uraniburg (double-page)
3. Orthographia praecipuae domus arcis Uraniburgi (double-page)
4th. Ichnographia praecipuae domus arcis Uraniburgi (double-page)
5. Sextans astronomicus prout altitudinibus inservit
6. Armillae aeqvatoriae
7. Instrumentum parallaticum + Instrumentum parallaticum Tychonis Brahe (2 engravings on 1 plate)
8. Armailla aeqvatoriae
9. Effigies of Tyhonis Brahe
10. Stellaeburgum sive Observatorium subterraneum, a Tychone Brahe (double-page)
11. Iconographia Stellaeburgi (engraved illustration, ca 265x260 mm. in text)
12. Armillae aeqvatoriae maximae
I'm 13. Sextans astronomicus trigonicus
14. Qvadrans magnus chalibeus
I'm 15. Qvadrans volubilis azimutalis.