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Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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

London, Guilielmus Jones, 1620 · 22

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culum unius partis sexagesimae 1′.

At circa punctum terrae proximum moveatur semper in mundi consequentia ab apogaeo eccentricitatis centrum epicycli, in eccentrico tamen semper positum, motu ante dicto aequali, ut in annis Aegyptiacis 144 et nycthemeris primis integris 37, restitutiones ad eccentricitatem 144 proxime conficiat. Accedit enim ad accuratum calculum partis unius sexagesimae 1. Qualium autem partium ea quae ex centro eccentrici est 60, talium supponatur ea quae inter centrum zodiaci et proximum duorum punctorum esse 3, ea vero quae inter centrum zodiaci et remotius duorum puncotrum esse 5 ½, ea denique quae inter remotius pun