Prutenic

Calamity and Zero; also the meaning of the word Prutenicæ, used by

Notes and Queries, Number 14, February 2, 1850 Various

With all its defects, partly due to reliance on bad observations, the work showed a great advance in the interpretation of the motions of the planets; and his determinations of the periods both in relation to the earth and to the stars were adopted by Reinhold, Professor of Astronomy at Wittenberg, for the new Prutenic or Prussian Tables, which were to supersede the obsolete Alphonsine Tables of the thirteenth century.

Kepler Bryant, Walter W 1920

He obtained the Alphonsine and the new Prutenic Tables, but soon found that the latter, though more accurate than the former, failed to represent the true positions of the planets, and grasped the fact that continuous observation was essential in order to determine the true motions.

Kepler Bryant, Walter W 1920

Prutenic Tables (Wittenberg, 1554), which were afterwards made the basis of the Gregorian reform.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

The Prutenic Tables were made the basis, and the epacts were all diminished by unity, in other words, Luna XIV was put one day later, to remove all danger of

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

The Prutenic tables, just referred to, so called because of their Prussian origin, were considered an improvement on the tables of Copernicus, and were highly esteemed by the astronomers of the time.

A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume II: The Beginnings of Modern Science 1904

A number of prominent astronomers, however, took it up almost at once, among these being Rhæticus, who wrote a commentary on the evolutions; Erasmus Reinhold, the author of the Prutenic tables; Rothmann, astronomer to the Landgrave of Hesse, and Maestlin, the instructor of Kepler.

A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume II: The Beginnings of Modern Science 1904

Copernicus made his observations, and of Konigsberg, to the meridian of which Rheinhold had adapted his Prutenic Tables.

The Martyrs of Science, or, The lives of Galileo, Tycho Brahe, and Kepler David Brewster 1824