Object Details
- L. C. Eichner Instruments
- Description
- 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).
- Ref: Hans Raeder, Elis Stromgren and Bengt Stromgren, Tycho Brahe’s Description of His Instruments and Scientific Work as Given in Astronomiae Instauratae Mechanica (Wandesburgi, 1598) (Copenhagen, 1946), p. 60.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- ID Number
- PH.321830
- catalog number
- 321830
- accession number
- 244363
- Object Name
- Equitorial Armillary Sphere (Replica)
- Measurements
- overall: 88 in x 76 in x 83 in; 223.52 cm x 193.04 cm x 210.82 cm
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Physical Sciences
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1187570
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ad-ef12-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
