Speaker
Giancarlo Truffa
(Independent Scholar)
Description
One of the first results of the publication of the De revolutionibus has been the preparation and the publication of the Prutenicae Tabulae Coelestium Motuum, first published in 1551 by Erasmus Reinhold. In my contribution I will present a brief excursus of the astronomical tables in use before the publication of these two groundbreaking works, the main characteristics of the tables included in Copernicus' book and the improvements and corrections introduced by Reinhold with his Prutenic tables.
