Prague, 1599-1612: The Rudolphine Tables (1627)

Engraved frontispiece of Keplers's Tabulae Rudolphinae (1627).

Title: Tabulæ Rudolphinæ, quibus astronomicæ scientiæ, temporum longinquitate collapsæ restauratio continetur; à Phœnice illo astronomorum Tychone, ex illustri ... Braheorum ... familiâ oriundo ... primum animo concepta et destinata anno Christi MDLXIV: exinde observationibus siderum ... seriò affectata ... Tabulas ipsas ... morte authoris sui anno MDCI. desertas ... continuavit ... perfecit, absolvit; ad́ causarum & calculi perennis formulam traduxit. Ioannes Keplerus, etc. [With a map.]

Author: Tycho Brahe, 1546-1601.

Contributor: Johannes Kepler 1571-1630.

Publication Details: [Ulm] : Typis J. Saurii, 1627. 

Full digital editions of this text are widely available.  Perhaps the best reader experience is that in the Museo Galileo, if you use the 'Reader)' function. Very clear and high-resolution images are available in the Library of Congress copy.  Also available in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich, and the Universitätsbibliothek, Kiel.: 

Commentary. This fronotispiece represents a kind of visual history of astronomy from Kepler's point of view.  A rich commentary is provided by Nick Jardine in 'Astronomical Images:Diagrams, Figures, and the Transformation of Astronomy, 1450-1650'.

Genre. Sachiko Kusukawa, 'Astronomical Tables'; a useful introduction to the genre within the 'Starry Messnger' website.