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``Consecrated to the
all-good, great God and Posterity. Tycho Brahe, Son of Otto, who realized
that Astronomy, the oldest and most distinguished of all sciences, had indeed
been studied for a long time and to a great extent, but still had not
obtained sufficient firmness or had been purified of errors, in order to
reform it and raise it to perfection, invented and with incredible labour,
industry, and expenditure constructed various exact instruments suitable for
all kinds of observations of the celestial bodies, and placed them partly in
the neighbouring castle of Uraniborg, which was built for the same purpose,
partly in these subterranean rooms for a more constant and useful
application, and recommending, hallowing, and consecrating this very rare and
costly treasure to you, you glorious Posterity, who will live for ever and
ever, he, who has both begun and finished everything on this island, after
erecting this monument, beseeches and adjures you that in honour of the
eternal God, creator of the wonderful clockwork of the heavens, and for the
propagation of the divine science and for the celebrity of the fatherland,
you will constantly preserve it and not let it decay with old age or any
other injury or be removed to any other place or in any way be molested, if
for no other reason, at any rate out of reverence to the creator's eye, which
watches over the universe.
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