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Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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

London, Guilielmus Jones, 1620 · 18

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Tandem circa memoratum centrum epicycli in ipso obliqui circuli plano existentis et recta per utrumque centrum, ipsius scilicet et alterum, non autem zodiaci circa quod aequabiliter movetur, sed tota eccentricitate ab eo in alteram partem distans, ea semper circelli puncta quae apogaeum et perigaeum vo