Tabulae Rudolphinae : quibus astronomicae scientiae, temporum longinquitate collapsae restauratio continetur / a Phœnice illo astronomorum Tychone, ex illustri & generosa Braheorum in regno Daniae familiâ oriundo equite, primum animo concepta et destinata a anno Christi MDLXIV: exinde observationibus siderum accuratissimis, post annum praecipue MDLXXII, quo sidus in Cassiopejae constellatione novum effulsit, seriò affectata; variisque operibus, cùm mechanicis, tùm librariis, impenso patrimonio amplissimo, accedentibus etiam subsidiis Friderici II. Daniae Regis, regali magnificentia dignis, tracta per annos XXV, potissimùm in insula freti Sundici Huenna, & arce Uraniburgo, in hos usus à fundamentis extructâ: tandem traducta in Germaniam, in que aulam et nomen Rudolphi Imp. anno M D IIC. Tabulas ipsas, jam et nuncupatas, et affectas, sed morte authoris sui anno MDCI desertas, jussu et stipendiis fretus trium Imppp. Rudolphi, Matthiæ, Ferdinandi, annitentibus haeredibus Braheanis ; ex fundamentis observationum relictarum; ad exemplum ferè partium jam exstructarum; continuis multorum annorum speculationibus, & computationibus, primùm Pragæ Bohemorum continuavit ; deindè Lincii, superioris Austriæ metropoli, subsidiis etiam ill. provincialum adjutus, emendavit, perfecit, absolvit, adq[ue] causarum & calculi perennis formulam traduxit Ioannes Keplerus, Tychoni primùm a Rudolpho II. Imp. adjunctus calculi minister; indéq[ue] trium ordine Imppp. mathematicus: qui idem de speciali mandato Ferdinandi II. Imp. petentibus instantibusq[ue] haeredibus, opus hoc ad usus praesentium & posteritatis, ... Cum privilegiis, Imp. & Regum rerúmq[ue] publ. vivo Tychoni ejúsq[ue] haeredibus, & speciali Imperatorio, ipsi Keplero concesso, ad annos XXX.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kepler, Johannes, 1571-1630.

Contributor:

Brahe, Tycho, 1546-1601.

Series:

Early European books.

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Astronomy--Tables--Early works to 1800.

Astronomy.

Stars--Catalogs--Early works to 1800.

Stars.

Stars--Catalogs.

Astronomy--Tables.

Solar system--Early works to 1800.

Solar system.

Genre:

Tables (Data)

Catalogs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (2 parts (16 unnumbered pages, 125 pages, 3 unnumbered pages; 115, that is, 120 pages)) : illustrations, map (folded)

Other Title:

Tabulæ Rudolphi astronomicae

Tabularum Rudolphi praecepta

Place of Publication:

[Ulm] : Typis, numericis propriis, cæteris & prælo Jonæ Saurii, Reip. Vlmanæ typographi, in publicum extulit, & typographicis operis Vlmæ curator affuit., Anno M. DC. XXVII. [1627]

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Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Notes:

The 'Sportula' (p. 121-125, [3]) has colophon: Typis Saganensibus. Anno 1629.

Engraved frontispiece, with title: "Tabulae Rudolphi astronomicae", signed: "Georg Celer sculpsit Norimbergæ ... 1627."

Pages 12-13 of first sequence misnumbered 4-5.

Woodcut diagrams in text.

Initials, head- and tail-pieces; printed marginalia.

Signatures: ):(⁴ ):():(⁴ a-q⁴ A-N⁴ O⁸.

Reproduction of original in: Kongelige Bibliotek (Denmark).

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Mich. : ProQuest, 2010 Mode of access: World Wide Web. Available to subscribing institutions. s2010 miun s

OCLC:

729242738

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