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BLAEU, Willem (1571-1638). Effigies Tychonis Brahe O.F. Aedificii et Instrumentorum Astronomicorum structoris. A. Domini 1587, Aetatis Sue 40. Amsterdam, ca 1662.
Engraved portrait of Tycho Brahe, colored by a contemporary hand image 417 x 270 mm (555 x 329 mm sheet). Matted and framed.
Tycho Brahe in his observatory on the Danish island of Hven. The clerk assisting Brahe is Willem Blaeu during his apprenticeship. From the first volume of the great "Atlas Major" published Blaeu. Whitefield Mapping of the Heavens p. 91.
Engraved portrait of Tycho Brahe, colored by a contemporary hand image 417 x 270 mm (555 x 329 mm sheet). Matted and framed.
Tycho Brahe in his observatory on the Danish island of Hven. The clerk assisting Brahe is Willem Blaeu during his apprenticeship. From the first volume of the great "Atlas Major" published Blaeu. Whitefield Mapping of the Heavens p. 91.