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Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Ptolemy, De planetarum hypothesibus liber (tr. John Bainbridge)

London, Guilielmus Jones, 1620 · 1

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Claudii Ptolemaei De planetarum hypothesibus liber

1. Prooemium

Hypotheses, Syre, coelestium motuum in Syntaxis mathematicae commentariis rationum ductu perlustravimus, demonstratis singularum cum probabilitate, tum omnimodo cum apparentiis consensu, ex quo satis indicatur aequabilis circularisque motus, quem necesse est iis inesse