[Science, Medicine & Mathematics] Kepler, Johannes. Tabulae Rudolphinae... First English edition
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[Science, Medicine & Mathematics] Kepler, Johannes. Tabulae Rudolphinae. Or the Rudolphine Tables, Supputated to the Meridian of Uraniburge, First, By John Kepler, From the Observations of the Tres Noble Ticho Brahe, Afterwards Digested into a most Accurate, and Easie Compendium, by the Famous Johannes Baptista Morinus...
London: Printed in the Year, 1675. First English edition. 8vo. (ii), 103 (but 93) pp. Later buckram, blue morocco spine label, stamped in gilt, label chipped; edges stained red; brown endpapers; by Book Shop Bindery, Chicago; text lightly toned; scattered minor spotting. Caspar 97; Wing K332
Rare first English edition of Johannes Kepler's Tabulae Rudolphinae, first published in Ulm in 1627. First started by Tycho Brahe and completed by Kepler, the tables are named after their patron, Rudolph II and further supported the Copernican system while also assigning planetary motion to natural causes rather than "fictitious circles".
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