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Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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

London, Guilielmus Jones, 1620 · 12

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1,010, qui sunt Aegyptiaci 1,010 et nycthemera 259° 22′ 50′′ proxime, anomaliae restitutiones faciat 473.

Iovis vero stella in annis solaribus similibus 771, qui sunt Aegyptiaci 771 et nycthemera 198° 0′ 9′′ proxime, anomaliae restitutiones 706 compleat.

Saturni denique stella in annis solaribus similibus 324, qui sunt Aegyptiaci 324 et nycthemera 83° 12′ 26′′ proxime, anomaliae restitutiones 313 conficiat.

4. De Solis et inerrantium sphaerae hypothesi

Iam in solari sphaera cogitetur in ipso zo