A combined observatory and research complex built in the 1570s on the island of Hven, then part of Denmark, for the astronomer Tycho Brahe, whose naked-eye positional measurements made there were the most precise achieved before the invention of the telescope. Its data later underpinned Johannes Kepler's laws of planetary motion.
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LocationVen, an island in the Öresund, Sweden 1 In the Other Atlases
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1. Uraniborg (Wikipedia)
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Ven, an island in the Öresund between Zealand and Scania, Sweden
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The sandstone and limestone-framed brick building was constructed from the year 1576 to 1580.
In Group: Historic Pre-Telescopic Observatories, Lead sentence
Uraniborg was an astronomical observatory and alchemy laboratory established and operated by the Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe.
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