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Mathematical Treasure: Kepler's Rudolphine Tables and defense of Brahe
In 1627, Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) published his Rudolphine Tables (Tabulae Rudolphinae), a collection of astronomical tables based mainly on the previous work of Tycho Brahe (1546-1601). The book also included tables of logarithms calculated by Kepler. The Tables were named in honor of Kaiser Rudolf II, then Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire and Kepler’s patron.
Below is shown page 64 from Kepler’s Tables:
For more images from this work, see also Mathematical Treasures – Johann Kepler’s Rudolphine Tables.
In 1625, Kepler published Tychonis Brahie Dani Hyperaspistes, a defense of the work and findings of Tycho Brahe.
The text begins with an elaborate dedication to Tycho Brahe.
The images above are presented courtesy of the University of Oklahoma and the University of Toronto Libraries.
Frank J. Swetz (The Pennsylvania State University), "Mathematical Treasure: Kepler's Rudolphine Tables and defense of Brahe," Convergence (October 2018)
