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Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Ptolemy, De suppositione planetarum (tr. before 1595)

Schweinfurt, SB, Ha 16 (H 85) · 16v

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circulus concentricus zodiaco qui feratur in plano eius et circa idem centrum pari celeritate ab occasus versus ortum quanta nisi legendum sit ὡς ἂν veluti pro ὅσον adnot. marg. stellarum fixarum sphaera. Gerat autem hic circulus alium sibi impositum corr. in inclinatum (perhaps other hand) et circa idem centrum immutabiliter positum corr. in inclinatione (perhaps other hand) planorum continente angulum 1 ½ 3′′ qualium est una recta una recta] corr. in unus rectus angulus (perhaps other hand) 90. In obliqui autem circuli plano ponatur ⟨diameter⟩ quae per borealem et australem terminum, et exinde intra centrum zodiaci et borealis termini borealis termini] should be accusative 2 puncta parem auferentia rectam intra centrum zodiaci et-zodiaci] marg. (perhaps other hand) et eius circa ipsum 2 punctorum. Et circa magis perigeum punctum circulus excentricus et immutabilis, linea ab ipsius centro ad eam quae intra illius et zodiaci centra rationem habente eam quae est 60 ad 6. Circa magis autem apogeum pari celeritate motum epicycli centrum situm habens semper in eccentrico circulo ut ad sequentia mundi ad dictam eminentia qua excellit Solis transitus amborum eiusdem temporis transituum tam fixarum quam stellae ut totis noctidiis 361 ad Agyptiacos annos 95 restitutiones fiant 51 proxime. Deest enim ad exquisitam