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Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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

London, Guilielmus Jones, 1620 · 23

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ctum et centrum eccentrici esse 2 ½.

Rursus circa centrum epicycli sphaerae in obliqui circuli plano cogitetur circellus, recta per utrunque centrum, ipsius scilicet et puncti terrae proximi, circa quod aequabiliter movetur, ea semper circelli puncta, quae apogaeon et peri