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Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Ptolemy, Almagesti (tr. Erasmus Reinhold)

Wittenberg, Johannes Lufft, 1549 · 60r

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2. Etsi tempus antemeridianum aequale esset postmeridiano, tamen stellarum distantiae et magnitudines non essent semper et ubique aequales.

3. Umbrae orientales et occidentales die aequinoctii non congruerent ἐπʼ ἐυθείας

III. Si terra nec in axe mundi collocata esset, nec in plano aequinoctialis circuli.

1. In recta sphaera nullum eveniret aequinoctium.

2. Reliqua pugnantia cum phaenomenis in utroque priori situ hic pariter concurrerunt.

Communia omnibus tribus sitibus terrae.

1. In obliqua sphaera, aut non fieret aequinoctium, aut non in medio transitu.

2. In obliqua sphaera ille tantum horizon secaret sphaeram per aequalia, qui transiret per centrum mundi.

3. In neutra sphaera semper apparerent sex signa.

4. Confunderetur universa series in decrementis et incrementis dierum.

5. Eclipses, ut plurimum evenirent, cum Sol et Luna non versarentur in locis, quae per semicirculum invicem opponerentur.