Work A.3.1

Ptolemy
Hypotheses planetarum (tr. Matthias Bergius and Johannes Praetorius)

Text ‘(Milan, BA, A. 71 inf.) Κλαυδίου Πτολεμαίου περὶ ὑποθέσεων τῶν πλανωμένων. Hypotheses, ô Syre, coelestium motuum in iis quidem quas de mathematicis scripsimus commentariis, oratione explicare conati sumus — Stella tandem a boreo limite obliqui circelli in consequentia mundi partibus. Finis.’

Content First part of Book I only (as in Greek).

Origin Translated by Matthias Bergius (1536-1592) and Johannes Praetorius (1537-1616). In Munich, BSB, Cgm 579, copied by Praetorius, Bergius’s translation breaks off on f. 9v and was presumably continued by Praetorius himself. If we accept the chronology of the documents in MS Milan, BA, A. 71 inf. (see) as an indicator, then the translation was made before 1587.

Bibl. 450 Jahre Copernicus „De revolutionibus“. Astronomische und mathematische Bücher aus Schweinfurter Bibliotheken. Ausstellung des Stadtarchivs Schweinfurt in Zusammenarbeit mit der Bibliotheken Otto Schäfer (21. November 1993 – 19. Juni 1994), ed. U. Müller, Schweinfurt, 1998, 49 and 330-331, no. 151 (entries by M. Folkerts). This version is unknown to Ptolemy scholars (see A.3).

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