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Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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

London, Guilielmus Jones, 1620 · 43

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sequentia, et circa diametram memoratam, excessu quo Solis motus utrumque et inerrantium et stellae aequali tempore motum excedit, ut in annis Aegyptiacis 117 et nycthemeris primis integris 330, restitutiones 4 proxime compleat. Desunt enim ad accuratum calculum partis unius sexagesimae 0′ 4′′.