PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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

London, Guilielmus Jones, 1620 · 11

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Aegyptiaci 8,528 ut ut] read et nycthemera 277° 20′ 24′′ congressus cum Sole, hoc est menses integros 105,416. Et rursus in mensibus integris 3,277, anomaliae restitutiones 3,512, et in mensibus integris 5,458, latitudinis restitutiones 5,923.

Mercurii etiam stella in annis solaribus ad apogaea et inerrantium sphaeram comparatis 993, qui sunt anni Aegyptiaci 993 et nycthemera 255° 0′ 52′′ proxime, anomaliae restitutiones 3,130 compleat.

Veneris stella in annis solaribus similibus 964, qui sunt anni Aegyptiaci 964 et nycthemera 247° 34′ 2′′ proxime, anomaliae restitutiones conficiat 603.

Martis autem stella in annis solaribus similibus