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Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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

London, Guilielmus Jones, 1620 · 28

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epicycli centrum, in eccentrico semper positum in mundi consequentia, et circum memoratam diametrum excessu, quo motus Solis inerrantium stellarum aequali tempore motum excedit.

Rursus in epicycli sphaera circum ipsius centrum in obliqui circuli plano cogitetur cir