Equatorial Armillary Sphere
name: label: maker
content: L. C. Eichner Instruments
notes: label: Description
content: Tycho Brahe (1546-1601) was a Danish nobleman who, having been given access to the island of Hven, established an amazing research facility, designed and produced several large and precise (but pre-telescopic) instruments, and proceeded to observe stars, planets and other astronomical objects. This replica of his large armillary sphere was made in the early 1960s by L. C. Eichner, for display in the new National Museum of History and Technology (now the National Museum of American History).
label: Description
content: Ref: Hans Raeder, Elis Stromgren and Bengt Stromgren, <i>Tycho Brahe’s Description of His Instruments and Scientific Work as Given in Astronomiae Instauratae Mechanica (Wandesburgi, 1598)</i> (Copenhagen, 1946), p. 60.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.321830
label: catalog number
content: 321830
label: accession number
content: 244363
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Equitorial Armillary Sphere (Replica)
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 88 in x 76 in x 83 in; 223.52 cm x 193.04 cm x 210.82 cm