Travel Reference
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door you entered is a painting of the chancellor on his deathbed, handing
over the keys to the kingdom to a still-wet-behind-the-ears young Christian
IV—the beginning of a long and fruitful career. On the right wall is a paint-
ing of Christian's coronation (the bearded gentleman looking out the window
in the upper-left corner is Carlsberg brewer and castle benefactor J. C. Jacob-
sen—who, some 300 years before his birth, was probably not actually in at-
tendance). Room 31 covers the royal family of Charles IV, while the smaller,
darkened corner Room 32 displays the various Danish orders; find the most
prestigious, the Order of the Elephant.
Hook back through Room 30, go outside on the little passage, and climb
up the stairs.
Second Floor:
Go to the corner
Room 39,
which has a fascinating golden
globe designed to illustrate Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus' bold new
heliocentric theory (that the sun, not the earth, was the center of our world).
Look past the constellations to see the tiny model of the solar system at the
very center, with a brass ball for the sun and little figures holding up symbols
for each of the planets. The mechanical gears could actually make this model
move to make the illustration more vivid.
