The artist is H.P. Hansen, and it appeared in the book Tyge Brahe - En historisk fremstilling by F.R. Friis (Copenhagen, 1871). Several additional portraits of Tycho can be found at the MacTutor History of Mathematics website at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. |
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