Blaeu, Joan, 1596-1673
Person
Dates
- Existence: September 23, 1596 - December 28, 1673
Found in 1 Collection or Record:
Collection of Tycho Brahe engravings
Collection — Box FF 4
Identifier: MSP 326
Abstract
The Collection of Tycho Brahe engravings (1 flat case file; 1662) contains 15 engravings (all on paper) that were once pages from Joan Blaeu’s Atlas maior, siue, Cosmographia Blauiana : qua solum, salum, cœlum, accuratissime describuntur. The engravings illustrate Brahe’s astronomical instruments and observations from his observatories, Uraniborg and Stjerneborg, in Hven, Sweden.
Dates:
1662; Majority of material found in 1662; Other: Date acquired: 07/11/2013