Astronomiae instauratae mechanica

by Tycho Brahe

$32,500 · Offered by Sophia Rare Books

Nuremberg: Levin Hulsius, 1602. Second edition — the only commercial edition ever printed — of Tycho Brahe’s autobiographical instrument-book: the illustrated description of Uraniborg and of its astronomical instruments, “the most advanced in the world for their time” Norman , the apparatus that produced, between 1576 and 1597, the most accurate naked-eye observations made before the telescope, and on which

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