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Prutenicadj.n.

Brit. /pruːˈtɛnɪk/, U.S. /pruˈtinɪk/
Forms: 1500s Prutenike, 1600s–1700s Prutenick, 1700s– Prutenic.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin Prutenicus.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin Prutenicus (1551 in Prutenicae tabulae coelestium motuum: see sense A.) < Pruteni , Prutheni Prussians (15th cent. in a British source as Pruteni ; 13th cent. in a British source as Pructeni ), formed after Ruteni Russians (see Ruthene n.) based on the similarity in form of post-classical Latin Russia (see Russia n.) and Prussia (see Prussian n. and adj.), + -icus -ic suffix. Compare slightly earlier Prutenical adj.The tables were named in honour of Albert, 1st Duke of Prussia (1490–1568), their patron.
Astronomy.
A. adj.
Designating the planetary tables Prutenicae tabulae coelestium motuum (1551) by Erasmus Reinhold (1511–53), a revised and expanded version of Copernicus’ tables in his De revolutionibus (1543). Chiefly in Prutenic tables. Now historical.The tables were one of the bases for the Gregorian reform of the calendar of 1582.
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Arzachel's tablesa1400
collect yearsc1405
Toletan tablesc1405
compute1483
compost1535
regimenta1544
Prutenic tables1599
Prutenics1603
horoscopea1656
computus1675
Alfonsines1710
solar tables1812
1599 E. Wright Certaine Errors Navigation sig. Ee4v Euen the Prutenike Tables themselues..disagreeing welnigh halfe a degree from trueth.
1644 J. Milton Doctr. Divorce (ed. 2) 7 I trust anon..to perfet such Prutenick tables as shall mend the Astronomy of our wide expositors.
1673 J. Flamsteed Let. 17 Feb. in H. Oldenburg Corr. (1973) IX. 469 The Alphonsine, Prutenick, Danish & Lansbergian calculi have beene a labor more troublesome yn needfull to the author.
1709 V. Manday tr. J. J. Hainlin Synopsis Mathematica Universalis iii. v. 493 The greatest distance of the True and Mean Quadratures may be 18 or 19 Hours, if we follow the Prutenick tables.
1784 R. Dunthorne et al. Long's Astron. (new ed.) II. v. x. 700 He..soon found out that both the Alphonsine and Prutenic tables differed greatly from the heavens.
1858 W. Whewell Hist. Sci. Ideas I. 270 These ‘Prutenic Tables’ were republished in 1571 and 1585, and continued in repute..until superseded by the Rudolphine Tables of Kepler in 1627.
1973 Sci. Amer. Dec. 90/2 Ephemerides computed by Johannes Stadius from the Prutenic Tables..were in turn based directly on Copernicus' work.
2003 Nature 2 Jan. 18/1 Erasmus Reinhold, author of the astronomical Prutenic tables that reduced Copernicus's theories to art,..died 450 years ago.
B. n.
In plural. The Prutenic tables. Obsolete.
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the world > the universe > cosmology > science of observation > astronomical calculation > [noun] > astronomical tables
Arzachel's tablesa1400
collect yearsc1405
Toletan tablesc1405
compute1483
compost1535
regimenta1544
Prutenic tables1599
Prutenics1603
horoscopea1656
computus1675
Alfonsines1710
solar tables1812
1603 C. Heydon Def. Iudiciall Astrol. xviii. 382 These Egyptian yeares may easily be reduced into Iulian, Gregorian, or other yeares: and contrarily, as the 3. precept of the Prutenicks, and the 12. in Maginus doe shewe.
1616 H. Briggs Let. in R. Parr Life J. Usher (1686) Coll. xvi. 36 Concerning Eclipses..Mullerus in his Phris. Tabulis hath mightily discouraged me, for he hath weakned the Prutenicks, my Foundation, in three places of his Book at least.
a1656 T. Whalley Let. in R. Parr Life J. Usher (1686) Coll. cclxxxiv. 599 I have calculated the Autum. Æqu. as precisely as I could by the Prutenicks.
1717 Coles's Eng. Dict. (new ed.) Prutenicks, Mathematical Tables dedicated to the Marquess of Brandenburgh.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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