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Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Ptolemy, Quadripartitum (tr. Philipp Melanchthon)

Basel, Johannes Oporinus, 1553 · 59

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⟨I.20⟩ Fines secundum Aegyptios

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Chaldaica vero ratio simplicior ac probabilior est, quanquam ne haec quidem penitus concinna est, cum in serie, quam sumit a triangulorum dominis, tum in numero, ut sine annotatione sua cuique regio attribui possit. Nam in primo triangulo, Arietis, Leonis, et Sagittarii, cum servetur ordo signorum, primus finis est Iovis, qui dominatur illi triangulo, secundus finis secundi trianguli, scilicet Veneris, tertius ter