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Searching for precision: Lorenz Eichstadt's Tabulae harmonicae coelestium motuum (Stetin 1644) and astronomical prediction after Kepler.

In the century between the creation of the first large, European astronomical observatory by Tycho Brahe in the 1580s and the national observatories of France and England in the 1660–1670s, astronomers constructed ever more sets of tables, derived from various geometrical and physical models, to com...

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Published in:Annals of Science Vol. 81; no. 1/2; pp. 60 - 79
Main Author: Kremer, Richard L.
Format: Article
Published: Taylor & Francis Ltd Jan-Apr2024
Subjects:
History of science
Natural history
Astronomical mathematics
Mathematical instruments
Horoscopes
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