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Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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

London, Guilielmus Jones, 1620 · 35

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sus 1° 50′, qualium unus rectus est 90°. Ea vero quae ex centro eccentrici ad eam quae ex centro circelli rationem habente, quam 60° ad 39° ½. In hoc vero circello et circum ipsius centrum moveatur stella aequabiliter, ut ab apogaeo in contrariam mundi conversioni partem motum utrique et epicycli et stellae motui aequalem compleat, hoc est excessum, quo Solis motus inerrantium aequali tempore motum excedit.

Anno autem primo a morte Alexandri, secundum Aegyptios primo die Thoth meridie Alexandriae apogaeon eccentricitatis ab aequinoctio verno in mundi consequentia distabat partibus 110° et sexagesimis 54′, tot etiam partibus distabat borealis limes. E