PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Ptolemy, De suppositione planetarum (tr. before 1595)

Schweinfurt, SB, Ha 16 (H 85) · 20v

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sequentia mundi gradibus ⟨70⟩ et sexagesimis ⟨38⟩. Stella autem borealis termini borealis termini] should be ‘a boreali termino’ obliqui circelli tanquam ad sequentia mundi gradibus ⟨219⟩ et sexagesimis ⟨16⟩.

Finis nec quicquam reliquum.