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Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Ptolemy, De planetarum hypothesibus liber (tr. John Bainbridge)

London, Guilielmus Jones, 1620 · 33

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trico semper positum in mundi consequentia circa memoratam diametrum excessu, quo Solis motus utrunque aequali tempore et inerrantium et stellae motum excedit, ut in annis Aegyptiacis 95 et nycthemeris primis integris 361, restitutiones 51 proxime conficiat. Desunt enim ad accuratum calculum partis unius sexagesimae 0′ 14′′.