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Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Ptolemy, Quadripartitum (tr. Philipp Melanchthon)

Basel, Johannes Oporinus, 1553 · 90

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regionum aut urbium, cuius considerationis modus erit talis: prima et efficacissima causa talium eventuum est copulatio Solis et Lunae in defectibus et stellarum eo tempore transitus. Primum autem locus indicandus est, cui regioni aut urbi Solis aut Lunae defectus aut stellarum Saturni, Iovis et Martis stationes portendant. Secundo tempus indicandum est, quando aut quamdiu duraturi sint eventus. Tertio genus eventuum, ut famesne an bella significentur. Quarto species, quis sit modus eventuum, ut qui sint futuri victores.

⟨II.5⟩ De consideratione regionum ad quas pertinent affectus

Primum de loco coniecturam ita faciemus: in defectibus Solis et Lunae, maxime insignibus, considerabimus locum zodiaci in quo fuit luminum de