An Etymological Dictionary of Astronomy and Astrophysics

A set of astronomical tables (→ ephemeris)
created in 1551 by Erasmus Reinhold (1511-1553), professor of astronomy at Wittenberg, indicating the positions of the Sun, the Moon, and the planets on the basis of the → Copernican model of heliocentric solar system. They superseded the → Alfonsine Tables, but
since circular orbits were used, they were no more accurate than those tables. They were themselves replaced by the → Rudolphine Tables.

See also: From original L. title Tabulae prutenicae “Prussian Tables,” such named because Albert I, Duke of Prussia, supported Reinhold and financed the printing; → table; → zij.