PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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

London, Guilielmus Jones, 1620 · 46

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centricitatis in mundi consequentia partibus 211 et sexagesimis 0′ et rursus borealis obliqui circelli limes ab apogaeo in mundi antecedentia partibus 81 et sexagesimis 0′. Stella vero a boreali obliqui circelli limite in mundi consequentia partibus 229° et sexagesimis 15′.