PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Ptolemy, De suppositione planetarum (tr. before 1595)

Schweinfurt, SB, Ha 16 (H 85) · 16r

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ea est ratio quae 60 ad 53[°] 6′. Super hoc circello moveatur stella circa ipsius centrum pari celeritate ut discessus secundum apogeum in contraria revolutioni mundi parem constituat transitum utriusque et epicycli et stellae ut in totis noctidiis 33 ad Agyptiacos annos 35 restitutiones fiant 17 proxime. Assumitur enim ad exquisitam supputationem unius gradus sexagesima una. Primo autem anno mortis Alexandri, secundum Aegyptios Ttoth i.e. Thoth 1, meridiei in Alexandria maxime apogeum eccentritatis a verno aequinoctiali distabat ad sequentia mundi gradibus 50 et 60 24, totidem et borealis terminus. Centrum autem epicycli ab apogeo eccentritatis ut ad sequentia mundi gradibus 177 et sexagesimae 12. Et rursum borealis terminus obliqui circelli ab apogeo epicycli ut ad mundi praecedentia gradibus 27 et 60 16. Qui vero a boreali termino circelli obliqui ut ad sequentia mundi gradibus 168 et sexagesimis 35.

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