BRAHE, Tycho.

Astronomiae Instauratae Mechanica.

Nuremberg: Levinus Hulsius, 1602.

First trade edition, a fine copy with provenance, of one of Brahe’s most important works, a description of his famous astronomical instruments (the most advanced in the world for their time), his globe, and his observatory on the island of Hven. “Brahe’s observations formed the basis upon which Kepler established his three laws of planetary motion” (Sparrow, Milestones of Science,...