PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Pseudo-Porphyry, Introductio in Claudii Ptolemaei Opus de effectibus astrorum (tr. Hieronymus Wolf)

Basel, Henricus Petri, 1559 · 188

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