Star-land; being talks with young people about the wonders of the heavens (1899)
Ball, Robert Stawell, Sir, 1840- [from old catalog] · Boston and London, Ginn & company · leaf 184
me to be afterwards determined.Tycho lived in days before telescopes were invented.He had few of the excellent contrivances for measuringwhich we have in our observatories. We shall take alook at this fine old astronomer, as he sits amid hiscurious astronomical machines. He lived on air island near… … Fig. 56. — Tycho Brahe in his Observatory. 172 STAR-LAND. him, busily engaged in observing the heavens. Yousee the walls of his observatory are decorated with pic-tures ; and one of the great Danish hounds which theKing of Denmark had presented to him lies asleep athis feet. I do not think we…
Astronomy
Internet Archive · Library of Congress · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
![An illustration from Novo teatro di machine et edificii per uarie et sicure operationi : co[n] le loro figure tagliate in rame é la dichiaratione, e dimostratione di ciascuna : opera necesaria ad architetti, e a quelli, ch[e] di tale studio si dilettano (1607)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-novoteatrodimach00zonc-69-42.webp)
![An illustration from Novo teatro di machine et edificii per uarie et sicure operationi : co[n] le loro figure tagliate in rame é la dichiaratione, e dimostratione di ciascuna : opera necesaria ad architetti, e a quelli, ch[e] di tale studio si dilettano (1607)](https://img.insideoutlibrary.com/img/200/ia-novoteatrodimach00zonc-111-66.webp)
