PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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عدد أزمان الساعة‘length of the hour in time degrees’

Arabic

References: Alm. MS Leiden: f. 24v.29
Translation of:
Greek: ὡριαίοι χρόνοι [Alm. Heiberg: II.9, 144:9]
Synonyms:
أزمان الساعات[Alm. MS Tunis: 31a.24-25]