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from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to the emperor Rudolph (Rudolf) II. (1576-1612): an epithet applied to a set of planetary and other astronomical tables composed by Kepler, and founded on the observations of Tycho Brahe.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective 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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