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

[Phredd Groves]

Kevin & Dan thank you!

Those astronomy journal references look like they're gold.

I've also got a lead on a book by C.V.L. Charlier:

Utgräfningarna af Tycho Brahes Observatorier pä ön Hven sommaren 1901



On Dec 17, 2007 7:46 AM, Bye, Dan J <D.J.Bye at shu.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> 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-----
> > From: project-wombat-bounces at lists.project-wombat.org
> > [mailto:project-wombat-bounces at lists.project-wombat.org] On
> > Behalf Of Kevin O'Kelly
> > Sent: 16 December 2007 17:50
> > To: list at project-wombat.org
> > 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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