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Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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

London, Guilielmus Jones, 1620 · 40

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sus 1° 30′, qualium unus rectus est 90°, ea vero quae ex centro eccentrici ad eam quae ex centro circelli rationem habente, quam 60° ad 11° 30′. In hoc circello circum centrum ipsius moveatur stella aequabiliter, ut ab apogaeo in contrariam mundi conversioni partem digressio motum utrique et epicycli et stellae motui aequalem compleat, hoc est excessum rursus, quo Solis motus inerrantium aequali tempore motum excedit.

Primo autem anno a morte Alexandri, secundum Aegyptios primo die Thoth in meridie Alexandriae apogaeum eccentricitatis ab aequinoctio verno in mundi consequentia distabat partibus 156 et sexagesimis 23′. Epicycli vero centrum ab apo