The Rudolphine Tables (Latin: Tabulae Rudolphinae) consist of a star catalogue and planetary tables published by Johannes Kepler in 1627, using observational...
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Ephemeris (redirect from Astronomical tables)
positions were given as printed tables of values, given at regular intervals of date and time. The calculation of these tables was one of the first applications...
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The Alfonsine Tables (Spanish: Tablas Alfonsíes, Latin: Tabulae Alphonsinae), sometimes spelled Alphonsine Tables, provided data for computing the position...
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The Toledan Tables, or Tables of Toledo, were astronomical tables which were used to predict the movements of the Sun, Moon and planets relative to the...
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star-position measurements from the Rudolphine Tables by Tycho Brahe. c:AD 150, Almagest – contains the last known star table from antiquity, prepared by Ptolemy...
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Johannes Kepler (section Rudolphine Tables)
new project he had proposed to the emperor: the Rudolphine Tables that should replace the Prutenic Tables of Erasmus Reinhold. Two days after Tycho's unexpected...
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Date of Easter (redirect from Easter tables)
The earliest known Roman tables were devised in 222 by Hippolytus of Rome based on eight-year cycles. Then 84-year tables were introduced in Rome by...
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(astronomical tables) by the astronomer Erasmus Reinhold published in 1551 (reprinted in 1562, 1571 & 1585). They are sometimes called the Prussian Tables after...
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Cassini in 1740. In 1627, the German astronomer Johannes Kepler, in his Rudolphine Tables, first used an astronomical year essentially as a year zero. He labeled...
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History of logarithms (section Tables of logarithms)
explanatory matter and ninety pages of tables of trigonometric functions and their natural logarithms. These tables greatly simplified calculations in spherical...
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motion, enabling calculation of astronomical tables with unprecedented accuracy (the Rudolphine Tables) and providing powerful support for a heliocentric...
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Urania Propitia (category Astronomical tables)
logarithms. Cunitz found many errors within the Rudolphine Tables. The simplifications to these tables were published as the Urania Propitia. In Urania...
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discoveries in physics Mystery of the Cosmos, Harmony of the World and Rudolphine Tables by Johannes Kepler, which describes Kepler's theories and observations...
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used an astronomical Easter from 1700 to 1774, based on Kepler's Rudolphine Tables, differing from the Gregorian Easter twice, one week early in 1724...
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historians claim Kepler's 1627 Rudolphine Tables, based on Tycho Brahe's observations, were more accurate than any previous tables. But nobody has ever demonstrated...
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determine when historical events which mention them occurred. In his Rudolphine Tables (1627), Johannes Kepler used a prototype of year zero which he labeled...
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as-Sanjarī (Sinjaric Tables) c. 1150 — Gerard of Cremona publishes Tables of Toledo based on the work of Azarqueil 1252–1270 — Alfonsine tables recorded by order...
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In Prague he was at work on the Rudolphine Tables, that were not finished until after his death. The Rudolphine Tables was a star map designed to be more...
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vernal equinox of Easter according to astronomical tables, specifically Kepler's Rudolphine Tables at the meridian of Tycho Brahe's Uraniborg observatory...
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Kepler wrote about Bürgi's logarithms in the introduction to his Rudolphine Tables (1627): "... as aids to calculation Justus Byrgius was led to these...
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orbits. In 1627, Kepler published his Rudolphine Tables. Two years later he published extracts from the tables in his pamphlet De raris mirisque Anni...
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Blaeu. It was first published in tabular form in Johannes Kepler's Rudolphine Tables of 1627. Uranometria introduced the convention of labelling stars...
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began on a Sunday. The astronomical tables that Ussher probably used were Kepler's Tabulae Rudolphinae (Rudolphine Tables, 1627). Using them, he would have...
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system, a fair number of astronomers found themselves dining at princely tables “rather than seated below the salt at university feasts.” Jardine divides...
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1603. In Johannes Kepler's edition of Tycho Brahe's star list in the Rudolphine Tables of 1627; this was the first time that it was given the alternative...
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astronomical tables that were based on the Rudolphine Tables, which was written by Johannes Kepler. Cunitz expanded her astronomical tables to include all...
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Tycho Brahe and Waltherus to produce the most accurate tables up to that time, the Rudolphine Tables. He evaluated the mean tropical year as 365 solar days...
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published the Urania Propitia, a collection of astronomical tables based on Kepler's Rudolphine Tables. The name was suggested by R. H. van Gent JPL · 12624...
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and technology involved some significant events. Johannes Kepler's Rudolphine Tables are published. January – The Dutch ship 't Gulden Zeepaert, skippered...
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too low (according to Kepler, at least by a factor of three) in his Rudolphine Tables (1627). Kepler's laws of planetary motion allowed astronomers to calculate...
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