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Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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

London, Guilielmus Jones, 1620 · 14

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tum aequabiliter moveatur in proposito tempore partes 1° 30′, quales zodiacus habet 360.

Anno igitur primo a morte Alexandri Conditoris, primo die Thoth secundum Aegyptios in meridie Alexandriae. Sol ab eccentrici apogaeo in mundi consequentia distabat partibus 162 et sexagesimis 10′, at quae in corde