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Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Work C.1.30.1

Theon of Alexandria
〈Commentum in Almagesti〉 (tr. Johannes Hommel)

A partial translation, comprising Theon’s preface and the first ten chapters of Book I, by Johannes Hommel (1518-1562), professor of mathematics at the University of Leipzig from 1551 onwards.

Text ‘(Munich, BSB, Clm 719) Theonis Alexandrini in primum librum Mathematicae constructionis Ptolomaei commentarius. Prooemium. Saepius admonitus ab autoribus, fili Epiphani, explicare ea, quae cuique difficilia videntur in Mathematica Ptolomaei constructione — quam Ptolomaeus 47′ 8′′ esse affirmat.’

Bibl. 450 Jahre Copernicus „De revolutionibus“. Astronomische und mathematische Bücher aus Schweinfurter Bibliotheken. Ausstellung des Stadtarchivs Schweinfurt in Zusammenarbeit mit der Bibliothek Otto Schäfer (21. November 1993 – 19. Juni 1994), ed. U. Müller, Schweinfurt, 1998, 49 and 331-333, no. 152 (entries by M. Folkerts); T. Woitkowitz, ‘Der Landvermesser, Kartograph, Astronom und Mechaniker Johannes Humelius (1518-1562) und die Leipziger Universität um die Mitte des 16. Jahrhunderts’, Sudhoffs Archiv 92 (2008), 65-97: 91.

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