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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) · 19r

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termino obliqui circelli tanquam ad sequentia mundi gradibus ⟨231⟩ est sexagesimis 31.

⟨I.14⟩

In Saturni autem sphaera consideretur circulus zodiaco concentricus qui feratur in plano eius et circa idem centrum pari celeritate ab occasu versus ortum ut stellarum fixarum sphaera. Geraut sic for ‘gerat’ autem hic circulus alium sibi impositum et circa idem centrum immutabiliter, situ planorum continente angulus talium 2 ½ qualium est una recta 90. In plano autem obliqui circuli considerata recta a centro zodiaci ad relictum puntum sic for ‘punctum’ borealis termini borealis termini] again this should be ‘a boreali termino’ gradibus 40, ponantur super illa duo puncta parem auferentia rectam eam probably should be ‘ei’ quae intra centrum zodiaci et eius iuxta ipsum 2 punctorum. Et circa magis perigeum 2 punctorum circulus eccentricus et immutabilis; ⟨recta⟩ eius quae ex centro eius ad intermedium centrorum ipsius et zodiaci rationem habet eandem quae 60 ad 3[°] 3′. Circa vero