QUADRANS MAGNUS CHALIBEUS
notes: label: Description
content: Tycho Brahe, the preeminent astronomical observer of the 16th century, established an observatory on the Danish island of Hven in the 1570s. Among his impressive assortment of impressive astronomical instruments was a large steel quadrant on an azimuthal base. This engraving representing that instrument was published in Joan Blaeu, <i>Atlas Maior</i>, vol. 1, book 2 (Amsterdam, 1662). It is derived from an engraving that first appeared in Tycho Brahe, <i>Astronomiae Instauratae Mechanica</i> (Wandesburg, 1598).
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: Netherlands: North Holland, Amsterdam
topic: label: Subject
content: Astronomy
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content: Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
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content: Science & Mathematics
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content: Prints from the Physical Sciences Collection
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: PH.319248
label: catalog number
content: 319248
label: accession number
content: 236083
objectType: label: Object Name
content: print
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 16 1/2 in x 10 3/4 in; 41.91 cm x 27.305 cm
label: Measurements
content: overall: frame: 23 1/2 in x 18 in x 3/4 in; 59.69 cm x 45.72 cm x 1.905 cm