Tycho Brahe's great equatorial armillary instrument mb-width 1754 Plate 17 from the paper

Plate 17 from the paper 'Observations on the Hirudo complanata

Two ruffians discuss their sentences

21st July 1968

This cartoon shows how he and his government were trying to carry on normal business whilst dealing with vociferous and active opposition from all these factions as well as the press

Tycho Brahe's great equatorial armillary instrument mb-width 1754 Plate 17 from the paperEngraving of Tycho Brahe's great equatorial armillary instrument, with one complete revolving ring and one fixed semicircular ring, ('Armillae aequatoriae maximaie, sesquialtero constantes circulo') in his Uraniborg observatory on the island of Hven. Illustration from Astronomia instauratae mechanica, by Tycho Brahe (Hamburg, 1598). Original: engraving. 1598