PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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le lieu auquel est parvenu chacun <des astres> dans son mouvement ‘restoring each of the motions to its respective epoch’

French

References: PH Morelon: I.1:3, 14:21-22
Translation of:
Arabic: الموضع الذي انتهت إليه كل واحدة من الحركات [PH Morelon: I.1:3, 15:12]