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fasces nec opes, sola artis sceptra perennant;" so strikingly illustrated by the state of Tycho's works on earth and his labours in science.[1] Low stone walls form oval enclosures round the sites of Uraniborg and Stjerneborg, but otherwise the scanty remains of the buildings are quite unprotected, and will soon entirely disappear, being exposed to wind and weather. It is therefore well that they have been carefully described, first by the Danish poet, J. L. Heiberg, in 1845,[2] and by the distinguished astronomer D' Arrest in 1868,[3] both enthusiastic lovers of the memory of Tycho Brahe.
- ↑ "Fornlemningar af Tycho Brahes Stjerneborg och Uranienborg på Ön Hvén, uptäckte åren 1823 och 1824," Stockholm, 1824, 8vo. The inscription from the paper-mill given herein agrees with that of Danske Magazin. See above, p. 186.
- ↑ Urania, Aarbog for 1846. Af J. L. Heiberg, Copenhagen, 1846 (also in his Prosaiske Skrifter, vol. ix.), with fourteen plates, giving views of the island. On the 21st June 1846 a great festival in honour of the tercentenary of Tycho Brahe's birth was held at Hveen, attended by many thousand Scandinavians.
- ↑ Astronomische Nachrichten, vol. lxxii., No. 1718. The writer of the present work visited the island in 1874, at which time the ruins were still exactly in the state described by D'Arrest.
