Popularity
The Alfonsine tables were the most popular astronomical tables in Europe and updated versions were regularly produced for three hundred years. Copernicus himself owned a copy. In 1551, the Prutenic Tables (or Prussian Tables) of Erasmus Reinhold's were published . These tables used the Copernican heliocentric model of the solar system. Copernicus's publication, De revolutionibus, was not easy to use and the Prutenic tables were intended to make the heliocentric model more usable by astrologers and astronomers. 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.
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