PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Ptolemy, Almagesti (tr. Stephanus Gracilis)

Paris, Gulielmus Cavellat, 1556 · 26r

Facsimile

dimidio magnitudinis diei. Ipsarum igitur decadum prima quidem simul attolletur cum temporibus 6 14′, secunda vero cum 6 21′, tertia cum 6 37′, quarta cum 7 1′, quinta cum 7 33′, sexta cum 8 12′, septima cum 8 56′, octava cum 9 48′, nona cum 10 34′.

Arcus EL qui per decadas variatur quantitas

Rhodi in sphaera recta
Decas
G
M
G
M
1
2
56
9
10
2
5
50
18
25
3
8
38
27
50
4
11
17
37
30
5
13
42
47
28
6
15
46
57
44
7
17
28
68
18
8
18
24
79
5
9
18
45
80
0

Quibus demonstratis, per se rursus ex iis que ante percepta sunt una demonstratae fuerunt reliquorum quoque quadrantum consequenter ascensiones. Eadem sane ratione supputatis in qualibet decade aliorum parallelorum ascensionibus, ad quos usus frequenter