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Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Erasmus Oswald Schreckenfuchs, In Almagesti priores tres libros annotationes

Basel, Henricus Petri, 1551 · F4r

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Haec figura pro ea ponatur quae habetur folio 64 columna prima, libro 3 capite 3.



In ultimum caput libri quinti annotatio

Empedocles duplam esse a terra ad Lunam distantiam asseruit.

Quidam vero mathematici, diligentius perscrutantes, decies octies. Eratosthenes Solem distare a terra 308 stadiorum myriadas, 3,080,000 stadiorum, 385,000 miliariorum. Lunam vero a terra 78 myriadas stadiorum, 780,000 stadiorum, 97,500 miliariorum.