PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Ptolemy, Almagesti (tr. Stephanus Gracilis)

Paris, Gulielmus Cavellat, 1556 · 47r

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rientalem meridiani partem situm obtinent, in quartis autem qui ad occidentalem, ut et initio distinximus. Meminisse etia decet ex duobus, qui sequente zodiaci segmento continentur, angulis eum nos semper assumpsisse qui a septentrionali eiusdem segmenti stat parte, attributa singulis quantitate, quae in uno recto partium est 90. Atque haec quidem est tabellarum descriptio.