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Work C.1.31.2

Theon of Alexandria
Commentary on the Almagest (tr. anonymous, in or before 1556)

Text ‘(Munich, BSB, Clm 719a) Ex Theone, Ptolemaei commentatore [note in upper margin by a contemporary hand]. De particularium scientiis. De initiis alicuius doctrinae dicturus planius, sicut in prioribus ea quae de mathematticis (!) speculationibus summatim oportebat proponere — ut X partibus habebimus circumferentiam quae a recta dicta subtenditur. Finis. 1 Dec. <15>56.’

Content Fragment (I.9-10).

Origin Unknown. The date 1556, found in the only known MS, could as well be that of the copy. This MS belonged to Johannes Praetorius.

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 333-334, no. 153 (entries by M. Folkerts).

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MSS

Munich, BSB, Clm 719a, s. XVI, f. 1r-19r  Images