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Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Ptolemy, Quadripartitum (tr. Philipp Melanchthon)

Basel, Johannes Oporinus, 1553 · 33

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Martem siccum nocturnae humiditati; sic uterque a contraria constitutione factus moderatior magis erit temperatus.

⟨I.7⟩ Quid valeant diversi positus ad Solem

Iam et propter positus ad Solem, intendunt aut remittunt suas vires Luna, Saturnus, Iupiter et Mars. Luna enim a coniunctione donec apparet dimidiata, magis est rigatrix, inde usque ad plenilunium calefacit, a plenilunio donec iterum dimidiata adparet desiccat, ab eo tempore donec occultatur frigefacit.

Errantes vero stellae donec sunt matutinae usque ad primam stationem magis humectant, a prima statione donec initio noctis oriuntur magis calefaciunt, ab ortu autem vespertino usque ad secundam stationem magis desiccant, a secunda statione usque ad occultationem magis frigefaciunt. Manifestum est autem, inter se commixtas magnam varietatem qualita