URANBURG, or URANIBURG, a castle of Denmark, situated on the little island of Huen, in the Sound, 16 miles north-east of Copenhagen. Here was the celebrated observatory built by that noble Dane Tycho Brahe, and furnished with instruments for observing the course and motions of the heavenly bodies.
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