Tabulae Rudolphinae
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First edition of Kepler’s last lifetime publication and crowning legacy, establishing the evidentiary foundation of his laws of planetary motion for all the planets of the solar system. “For Kepler [his tables were] the substantiation of his laws of planetary motion … The geocentric world view was broken and the heliocentric system, together with Kepler’s laws of planetary motion, triumphed” (Gingerich). The tables are based on Tycho Brahe’s observations, supplemented by Kepler’s own, with positions recalculated according to Kepler’s laws of planetary orbits. The calculations were a formidable mathematical achievement. Tycho’s data, collected over many years with the help of many assistants, pertained to “perfect” circular orbits, and Kepler had to recalculate everything according to the planets’ true elliptical orbits. “Another innovation completely altered Kepler’s original plan for the form of the tables—'a happy calamity,’ as he called it. In 1617 Kepler first saw John Napier’s epoch-making work on logarithms and was deeply impressed by it, recognizing how this new invention would simplify the time-consuming computations of astronomy” (ibid).
The fine engraved allegorical title was designed by Kepler himself and executed by Georg Celer. It depicts the Temple of Urania inhabited by great astronomers of the past, with Copernicus and Tycho front and center. Kepler himself is in a downstairs room, working on the mystery of the cosmos. Tycho had entrusted Kepler on his deathbed to complete his planetary tables and secure his legacy, but over the 26 years that it took Kepler to complete this task, the work became his own. Legal complications with Tycho's heirs plagued the project; for this reason, Kepler included a dedication by Brahe’s heirs to the Emperor as well as one of his own. The heirs took exception to Kepler's dedication being longer than theirs; the result is that this work is bibliographically complex, with a series of changes to the title and first two gatherings. One thousand copies were printed in Ulm in 1627. There are three states of this printing; this is the third state, with the longer dedication from Brahe's heirs. Some copies are known with an added world map and 4-leaf text entitled the Sportula (Caspar 79.1). Caspar 79; Houzeau and Lancaster 12754; Norman 1208; Sparrow 116. See Owen Gingerich, “Johannes Kepler and the Rudolphine Tables” in Sky and telescope, 42 (1971), pp 328-33 (reprinted in The Great Copernicus Chase, 1992) for more on the frontispiece and Gingerich, “Johannes Kepler and the New Astronomy,” in the Quarterly Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society v 13 (1972). Exhibited: "The Heavens Revealed," Chapin Library, Williams College, 2003.
Folio (324 x 219mm). Without the 4-leaf text of the Sportula printed later and included with some copies. Engraved allegorical additional title by Celer; numerous woodcut diagrams in text (spotted, first 3 leaves somewhat soiled and reinserted, some repairs to margins where vellum index tabs tore away, in one case with larger neat repair in text, without loss). 19th-century German paper over boards, titled in manuscript on the spine, some vellum index tabs present (corners showing, joints tender, spine sympathetically repaired); custom box. Provenance: Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna (Bibliotheca Palatina Vindobonensis duplicate stamp) – C.G.J. Jacobi, mathematician (purchased from him:) – Harvard College Library (received 2 December 1851; with Harvard bookplates and later release stamps) – Owen Gingerich (bookplate).
| Künstler: | Johannes Kepler (1571 - 1630) |
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| Künstler: | Johannes Kepler (1571 - 1630) |
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| Herkunftsort: | Deutschland |
| Kategorie des Auktionshauses: | Medizin und Wissenschaft, Gedruckte Bücher |
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