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Book illustrations of Tycho Brahe's astrolabe and a drawing of the path of precession of the ecliptic pole

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Title: Book illustrations of Tycho Brahe's astrolabe and a drawing of the path of precession of the ecliptic pole
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Photographs
Rights Information: For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Book illustrations of Tycho Brahe's astrolabe (top) and a drawing of the path of precession of the ecliptic pole (bottom). The illustrations are captioned.
Image courtesy of the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science Collection at the Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Type: Image
Format: image/tiff
Identifier: COPC 1395
29392
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/1783
Subject: Astrolabes
Astronomical instruments
Brahe, Tycho, 1546-1601
Precession
Spherical astronomy
Astronomy
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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