PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Leuven, Petrus Phalesius & Martinus Rotarius, 1548

Title page:

‘Cl<audii> Ptolemaei Pelusiensis mathematici operis Quadripartiti in Latinum sermonem traductio adiectis libris posterioribus Antonio Gogava Graviens<e> interprete ad clarissimum principem Maximilianum comitem Burens<em>. Item, De sectione conica, orthogona, quae parabola dicitur, Deque speculo ustorio libelli duo hactenus desiderati restituti ab Antonio Gogava Graviensi. Cum praefatione D. Gemmae Frisii, medici et mathematici clariss<imi>, cum gratia et privil<egio> Lovanii apud Petrum Phalesium ac Martinum Rotarium, anno M.D.XLVIII, mense Octobri’.

 Last page:

‘Lovanii excudebat Iacobus Batius typograph. iur.’

Astrology and optics: Gemma Frisius, preface (A2r); Antonius Gogava, dedicatory letter to Maximilian of Egmond (A2v-A3v); Ptolemaica ([A4]r-[P3]v); Antonius Gogava, letter to the readers ([P4]r-[P4]v); Regiomontanus, reworking of Alhazen’s Speculi almukefi compositio ([P5]r-[S2]r, based on MS Vienna, ÖNB, 5258, f. 27r-35r, ed. M. Clagett, Archimedes in the Middles Ages, IV, Philadelphia, 1980, 203-221); Alhazen, De speculis comburentibus ([S2]r-[T3]v, based on MS Vienna, ÖNB, 5258, f. 39r-46v); Errata ([T4]r).

Bibl. S. Vanden Broecke, The Limits of Influence: Pico, Louvain, and the Crisis of Renaissance Astrology, Leiden, 2003, 161 and 177-178; R. S. Westman, The Copernican Question. Prognostication, Skepticism, and Celestial Order, Berkeley-Los Angeles-London, 2011, 180.

Exemplar Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, 4 A.gr.b. 1222

[A4]r–⁠[P3]v

‘Claudii Ptolemaei mathematici operis libri quatuor, in quibus de iudiciis disseritur, ad Syrum lib<er> I. Duo sunt, Syre, quibus pervenitur ad astronomicas praedictiones, praecipua quidem et maxima. Unum quod primum et loco est potestate, quo Solis, Lunae et stellarum motuum configurationes — Hic igitur nobis est temporum contemplandorum modus, genera vero decretorum suis temporibus evenientium congerere hoc loco omittemus, ob illum quem nobis scopum proposuimus cum astrorum afficientia generatim perspecta, partilioribus eventibus accommodari iusta ratione possit, si mathematici causam erudite cum ea quae extemperatura nascitur, comparemus. Finis libri quarti.’

= Ptolemy, Quadripartitum (tr. Antonius Gogava) (A.2.10)

. Book I, [A4]r-E2r; II, E2v-H2v; III, [H3]r-N1v; IV, N2r-[P3]v.