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| Tycho Brahe built two observatories - Uraniborg and Stjerneborg - on Hven |
This map of the
Swedish island
Ven (or
Hven in
Danish) is the only map that the Danish astronomer
Tycho Brahe (1546 - 1601) personally drew. It is also the first map in
Scandinavia which is based on systematic measurements. The map was included in Brahe´s
Epistolanum astronomicum libri from 1596.
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| Tycho Brahe working in Uraniborg |
At the the time Brahe produced his map, he was living and working on the then Danish island Hven, which had been given to him by king
Frederik II. The island is situated in the
Øresund strait between
Scania (
Sweden) and
Zealand (
Denmark).
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