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In September, Tycho secured him a commission as a collaborator on the new project he had proposed to the emperor: the Rudolphine Tables that should replace the Prutenic Tables of Erasmus Reinhold.
As he slowly continued analyzing Tycho's Mars observations — now available to him in their entirety — and began the slow process of tabulating the Rudolphine Tables, Kepler also picked up the investigation of the laws of optics from his lunar essay of 1600.
In the years following the completion of Astronomia Nova, most of Kepler's research was focused on preparations for the Rudolphine Tables and a comprehensive set of ephemerides ( specific predictions of planet and star positions ) based on the table ( though neither would be completed for many years ).
Johannes Kepler published the Rudolphine Tables containing a star catalog and planetary tables using Tycho Brahe's measurements.
* 1627Johannes Kepler publishes his Rudolphine Tables of 1006 stars from Tycho plus 400 more
* 1627the Rudolphine Tables of Johannes Kepler became the new standard.
German Protestant states used an astronomical Easter based on the Rudolphine Tables of Johannes Kepler between 1700 and 1774, while Sweden used it from 1739 to 1844.
Its improvement was to calculate the full moon and vernal equinox of Easter according to astronomical tables, specifically Kepler's Rudolphine Tables at the meridian of Tycho Brahe's Uraniborg observatory ( destroyed long before ) on the former Danish island of Hven near the southern tip of Sweden.
The astronomical tables that Ussher probably used were Kepler's Tabulae Rudolphinae ( Rudolphine Tables, 1627 ).
If Lightfoot had attempted to calculate the autumnal equinox of 3929 BC, he, like Ussher, would have used the Rudolphine Tables, which placed the equinox on October 25, versus October 22 using modern equations.
* Johannes Kepler's Rudolphine Tables are published.
Some historians of science claim Kepler ’ s 1627 Rudolphine Tables based on Tycho Brahe ’ s observations were more accurate than any previous tables.
* Rudolphine Tables
Urania propitia was a simplification of the Rudolphine Tables.
However, the Prutenic tables were not widely adopted outside German speaking countries and new ephemerides based on the Alfonsine tables continued to be published until the publication of Johannes Kepler's Rudolphine Tables in 1627.

Tables and ),
Finally, in 1740 the French astronomer Jacques Cassini, who is traditionally credited with the invention of year zero, completed the transition in his Tables astronomiques, simply labeling this year 0, which he placed at the end of Julian years labeled avant Jesus-Christ ( before Jesus Christ or BC ), and immediately before Julian years labeled après Jesus-Christ ( after Jesus Christ or AD ).
)" Together they produced the films Apache ( 1954 ), Vera Cruz ( 1954 ), Marty ( 1955 ) ( which won both the Academy Award for Best Picture and the Palme d ' Or award at the Cannes Film Festival ), The Kentuckian ( 1955 ), Trapeze ( 1956 ), The Bachelor Party ( 1956 ), Sweet Smell of Success ( 1957 ), Run Silent, Run Deep ( 1958 ), Separate Tables ( 1958 ), ( 1959 ), Take a Giant Step ( 1959 ), Summer of the Seventeenth Doll ( 1960 ), and ( 1960 ).
ET was an independent time-variable, proposed ( and its adoption agreed ) in the period 1948 – 52 with the intent of forming a gravitationally uniform time scale as far as was feasible at that time, and depending for its definition on Simon Newcomb's Tables of the Sun ( 1895 ), interpreted in a new way to accommodate certain observed discrepancies.
The phonology is known through the alternation of Greek and Etruscan letters in some inscriptions ( for example, the Iguvine Tables ), and many individual words are known through loans into or from Greek and Latin, as well as explanations of Etruscan words by ancient authors.
Its detailed definition depended on Simon Newcomb's Tables of the Sun ( 1895 ), interpreted in a new way to accommodate certain observed discrepancies:
*< cite id = refNewcSun > Simon Newcomb ( 1895 ), Tables of the Sun (" Tables of the Motion of the Earth on its Axis and Around the Sun ", in " Tables of the Four Inner Planets ", vol.
Before the Twelve Tables ( 754 – 449 BC ), private law comprised the Roman civil law ( ius civile Quiritium ) that applied only to Roman citizens, and was bonded to religion ; undeveloped, with attributes of strict formalism, symbolism, and conservatism, e. g. the ritual practice of mancipatio ( a form of sale ).
The periods in which these systems were in use overlapped one another and did not have definitive breaks, but it can be stated that the legis actio system prevailed from the time of the XII Tables ( c. 450 BC ) until about the end of the 2nd century BC, that the formulary procedure was primarily used from the last century of the Republic until the end of the classical period ( c. AD 200 ), and that of cognitio extraordinarem was in use in post-classical times.
The Earth's motion was described in Newcomb's Tables of the Sun ( 1895 ), which provided a formula for estimating the motion of the Sun relative to the epoch 1900 based on astronomical observations made between 1750 and 1892.
These were mainly Zij treatises, including Arzachel's Tables of Toledo ( 1087 ), the Maragheh observatory's Zij-i Ilkhani ( 1272 ) and Ulugh Beg's Zij-i-Sultani ( 1437 ).
Some of these songs, along with others performed but not included on the album, were included on Colin Newman's post-Wire solo albums ( 5 / 10, We Meet Under Tables ), while others were released by Gilbert and Lewis ' primary post-Wire outlet Dome ( And Then ..., Ritual View ).

Tables and used
The numbering system used in Tables 1 and 2 and Figures 1 and 2 was continued for the 21 growth centers.
Tables 1 and 2 present the results of the statistical analysis of the data when compulsivity is used as the descriptive variable.
The mathematics of crystal structures developed by Bravais, Federov and others was used to classify crystals by their symmetry group, and tables of crystal structures were the basis for the series International Tables of Crystallography, first published in 1935.
Tables of random numbers ( such as 256 random 32 bit integers ) can provide high-quality non-linear functions to be used
* Tables, Ladders, and Chairs ( a ladder match where all three items may be used as a weapon against an opponent ).
Specifically, those tables used for most of the 20th century were Newcomb's Tables of the Sun ( used from 1900 through 1983 ) and Brown's Tables of the Moon ( used from 1923 through 1983 ).
The other nine units in ENIAC were the Initiating Unit ( which started and stopped the machine ), the Cycling Unit ( used for synchronizing the other units ), the Master Programmer ( which controlled " loop " sequencing ), the Reader ( which controlled an IBM punched card reader ), the Printer ( which controlled an IBM punched card punch ), the Constant Transmitter, and three Function Tables.
Although due to the names associated with chess sometimes being used for more than one game ( for instance Xiang-qi in China and Tables in England ), the only certain reference to chess is often several hundred years later than uncertain earlier references.
Tables are used to correct the reading to the standard temperature.
Tables of common logarithms were used until the invention of computers and electronic calculators to do rapid multiplications, divisions, and exponentiations, including the extraction of nth roots.
Tables of special functions are still used ; for example, the use of tables of values of the cumulative distribution function of the normal distribution – so-called standard normal tables – remains commonplace today, especially in schools.
Tables containing common logarithms ( base-10 ) were extensively used in computations prior to the advent of computers and calculators.
By extrapolating from modern measurements, the date on which the mean solar day would have been exactly 86400 seconds long was about 1820, neatly in the middle of the data ( from 1750 – 1890 ) which Newcomb used to prepare his Tables.
::* Tables that cannot be used for dining

Tables and year
In July 2008, the Higher Education Funding Council of England removed the University's Department of Psychology of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences from the League Tables for the year as its sanction for having fraudulently manipulated the National Student Survey results.
In 1838 he published a revision of the lunar theory, entitled Fundamenta nova investigationis, & c., and the improved Tables of the Moon (" Hansen's Lunar Tables ") based upon it were printed in 1857, at the expense of the British government, their merit being further recognized by a grant of £ 1000, and by their adoption in the Nautical Almanac as from the issue for the year 1862, and other Ephemerides.
Cardiff University continues the tradition of all three of its former institutions in providing high quality research-based education in Wales, as shown in its five year standing as the best centre of excellence in Wales in the Sunday Times League Tables.
During this year, D-Generation X would capture the Unified WWE Tag Team Championships at TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs ( 2009 ) against Jericho and the Big Show, which would become the start of the first and only title reign for Triple H and Shawn Michaels as a tag team.
In 2007 The Guardian rated the university 8th, and 10th of 117 institutions by The Guardian League Tables 2009 ( published online 1 / 6 / 08 for the 2009-10 academic year.
A number of hit comedies transferred to or from the theatre in the 1970s and 1980s, and other important plays here during the period included Rattigan's Separate Tables, with John Mills in 1976, Lyle Kessler's Orphans in 1986 with Albert Finney, I'm Not Rappaport the same year, with Paul Scofield, and Dorothy Tutin, Eileen Atkins and Siân Phillips in Thursday's Ladies in 1987.
So jealous of their prerogatives were the patricians of the early Republic, that in 450 BC, the second year of the Decemvirate, a law forbidding the intermarriage of patricians and plebeians was made a part of the Twelve Tables, the fundamental principles of early Roman law.
He went on to defend the title through the end of the year, retaining in a rematch with Del Rio on the November 28 episode of Raw and against both Del Rio and The Miz in a Triple Threat TLC match at TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs.
She was Cary Grant's Grandmother Janou in 1957's An Affair to Remember and, the following year, was part of the ensemble cast of Separate Tables.

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