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Johannes Kepler and his making of the Rudolphine Tables

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 October 2021

Mark J. Cooker
Mark J. Cooker*
Affiliation:
School of Mathematics, University of East Anglia, NorwichNR4 7TJ, e-mail: m.cooker@uea.ac.uk
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This Article is about the many complicated tasks that one mathematician had to carry out, and the barriers he had to overcome in order to publish one very important book in the history of applied mathematics.

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The Mathematical Gazette , Volume 105 , Issue 564 , November 2021 , pp. 425 - 432
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