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Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Work C.2.25.1

Pseudo-Porphyry
Introductio in Claudii Ptolemaei Opus de effectibus astrorum (tr. Hieronymus Wolf)

A translation of Pseudo-Porphyry’s Introduction to the Tetrabiblos (C.2.25) by Hieronymus Wolf, who published it in Basel in 1559, together with the Greek original text, in two columns.

Text ‘(ed. Basel 1559) Porphyrii philosophi Introductio in Claudii Ptolemaei Opus de effectibus astrorum. Praefatio. Quia doctrinam de temperatura coelestium corporum et effectuum genera per illam doctrinam observata — Venus et Mercurius 14, 7 ante et totidem post. Finis.’

Bibl. S. Heilen, H. Zäh, ‘Who Edited and Who Translated the Anonymous Commentary to Ptolemy’s Tetrabiblos and (Ps.-)Porphyry’s Isagoge (Basel 1559)?’, MHNH 20 (2020), 93-128.

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