Tycho Brahe's celestial sphere. Artwork from 1584 of the celestial sphere designed and built by the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe (1546-1601). Brahe i

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Tycho Brahe's celestial sphere. Artwork from 1584 of the celestial sphere designed and built by the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe (1546-1601). Brahe is considered the greatest astronomical observer of the pre-telescopic era. He designed and built his own instruments and observatories with the patronage of the royalty of Europe. A celestial sphere is used to plot the positions of the stars and other astronomical bodies relative to the Earth's equator and the solar system's ecliptic plane. Brahe's celestial globe was removed from Neisse and taken to Copenhagen in 1632, where it melted in the fire that destroyed the observatory and university library in 1728.

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Size: 3614px × 4884px
Photo credit: © DETLEV VAN RAVENSWAAY/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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