[PW] Archaeological Excavations of Tycho Brahe's Stjerneberg onthe Island of Ven...

[Bye, Dan J]

Some clues:

>From the Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada, vol. XLV (6), Nov/Dec 1951. , p.254.

"The Swedish National Committee of Astronomy announces that the ruins of Tycho Brahe's observatory Stjarneborg on Hven have again been excavated and are protected now by a building. A ceremony was held there on October 27 in memory of Tycho Brahe's death on October 24, 1601."
by Yngve Ohman.


>From the Journal of the British Astronomical Association Vol. 109 (3) 1999, p.162.
"Nothing remains of the buildings except the dungeon, discovered in the eighteenth century, when a farmer broke into it with a plough... The Stjerneborg trustees have tried to reconstruct the domes as they were in Tycho's day. They have excavated areas where he used to mount his instruments on a central pillar, surrounded by terraces."


The Beckett book is in Danish with an English summary, according to COPAC:

Main author: Beckett, Francis. 
Title details: Uraniborg og Stjaerneborg ... (Tycho Brahe's Uraniborg and Stjerneborg on the Island of Hveen / drawings by Charles Christensen. Text by Francis Beckett.) [With an English summary.] 
Published: København & London, 1921. 
Physical desc.: fol. 
Language: Danish 

Also perhaps of interest:

Tycho Brahe's paper mill on Hven and M.A. Møller Nicolaisen's excavations, 1933-1934 
by: Vellev, Jens 
in: Acta Historica Astronomiae, vol. 16, p. 333-355. 

Tycho Brahe, Laboratory Design, and the Aim of Science: Reading Plans in Context
by Jole Shackelford
in: Isis,  Vol. 84 (2), Jun 1993. pp.211-230.

Tycho Brahe at the University of Copenhagen, 1559-1562 
by John Christianson 
in: Isis, Vol. 58 (2), Summer 1967, pp. 198-203


Dan

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:project-wombat-bounces at lists.project-wombat.org] On 
> Behalf Of Kevin O'Kelly
> Sent: 16 December 2007 17:50
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> Subject: Re: [PW] Archaeological Excavations of Tycho Brahe's 
> Stjerneberg onthe Island of Ven...
> 
> Hi:
> 
> I am about to rush out the door, so I didn't have a lot of 
> time to put into this, but in the American Journal of 
> Archaeology's Bibliography of Archaeology Books 1921, there 
> was an entry for:
> 
> A. Chagny, C. Christensen, and F. Beckett. Tycho Brahe's 
> Uraniborg and Stjerneborg on the Island of Hveen. Copenhagen, 1921.
> 
> That may have information on the 1901 excavations. 
> Unfortunately I am at home right now and don't have access to 
> WorldCat. 
> 
> I will see what I can find later. 
> 
> I realize this isn't much, but it's a start....
> 
> Kevin
> 
> Phredd Groves <phredd at gmail.com> wrote: Dear w0mbats,
> 
> Via picture captions, I believe that Tyho Brahe's observatory 
> Stjerneborg (or Stellaburgi in Latin) has been subject to 
> archaeological excavation in 1951 and possibly 1901.  
> Stjerneborg and Brahe's castle, Uraniborg, were built on the 
> Island of Ven (which is currently Swedish.  It had been 
> Danish and called Hven).
> 
> I have been trying with no success to discover:
> 
> 1. Who or what entities performed these excavations?
> 2. Did they publish their findings?
> 3. If they published, where I can find the publications?
> 
> It'd be lovely if there was a publication in English, but I 
> suspect that any such publication would be in Swedish or Danish.
> 
> Thank you!
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