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Rudolphine

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Ru`dolph´ine
a.1.Pertaining to, or designating, a set of astronomical tables computed by Kepler, and founded on the observations of Tycho Brahe; - so named from Rudolph II., emperor of Germany.
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In Renaissance central Europe, Frederick's successors as rulers of the Holy Roman Empire sponsored conjurers and freaks, but also the great astronomers Tycho Brahe and Johannes Kepler, who produced the Rudolphine Tables, a new set of calculations of the positions of the planets named after their patron, the Habsburg Emperor Rudolph II.
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