PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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الدائرة التي ترسم على قطبي دائرة معدّل النهار‘circle drawn through the poles of the equator’

Arabic

References: Alm. MS Tunis: 16b
Translation of:
Greek: ὁ διὰ τῶν πόλων τοῦ ἰσημερινοῦ κύκλος [Alm. Heiberg: I.16, 82:4]
Synonyms:
الفلك المخطوط على قطبي معدّل النهار[Alm. MS Leiden: f. 13r]