Abstract

When he became an astronomer in the closing years of the 16th century, Kepler found a science in which planetary predictions typically erred by several degrees on the sky; the legacy of the Rudolphine Tableswas a prediction scheme nearly 50 times more accurate. For Kepler these tables were the proof of the pudding, the substantiation of his laws of planetary motion. He called them “my chief astronomical work.”

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