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Many a Swede mourned last week the passing of Magnus, last of the Counts of Brahe. To honor properly the total extinction of a great name three Swedish dignitaries in funeral frock coats and toppers climbed into a teetering rowboat and rowed out to the middle of a lake...
...half a millennium the Kings of Sweden have been loyally served by the House of Brahe. Per Brahe, third of the Swedish Brahes, married a sister of King Gustaf Vasa, "father of modern Sweden,'' in the early 16th century. His grandson, Per Brahe the Younger was Governor General of Finland. In 1632 Nils Brahe, of the "Blue Brigade," died with King Gustavus Adolphus in the Battle of Lützen...
Magnus, last of the Counts of Brahe, died at his castle of Skokloster. To his funeral came Sweden's King, Crown Prince, Prime Minister and a delegation of Swedish nobles. With bowed heads nobles and peasants stood in the ancient chapel of Castle Skokloster while Archbishop Söderblom of Stockholm read the funeral service. Came a pause. Then up to the coffin strode Sweden's brawny Master of Heraldry. With a dramatic gesture he seized the ancient black-winged wooden escutcheon of the Brahe family, broke it in two across the coffin as a sign that no Swede will ever...
Four hundred years ago Tycho Brahe, Danish astronomer, desired silversmiths to make him a globe on which should be represented, "with exactitude," the constellations of the stars. Silversmiths made the "undignified fanatic" his globe. It was about twelve inches in diameter; its surface was carved with those bizarre and threatening shapes with which the ancients first identified the golden processionals of the sky. No celestial beast was missing; goat, unicorn, fish, lion, hurrying crab crowds its shining convexity. After the death of the astronomer, his globe became famous in the country that had laughed at its inventor. A succession...
There was a time when men told fortunes by the stars, when Louis XI quailed before the coursing of the planets, when Tycho Brahe observed the passage of a comet and thereupon fore told the coming of a scourge out of the North who should conquer and disappear. So was Gustavus Adolphus preceded by prophecy. So the stars entered intimately into the lives of men, Upon the story of the telescope nations waited in suspense...