This translation of Book II by one Stephanus Gracilis was published by Guilielmus Cavellat in 1556 to supplement Erasmus Reinhold’s translation of Book I (A.1.5), also published by Cavellat in the same year. The translation was prepared at the request of Jean Magnien (Johannes Magnenius), professor of mathematics at the Collège Royal in Paris in 1555-1556.
Text ‘(ed. Paris 1556) (2r) [translator’s preface] St<ephanus> Gracilis Io<hanni> Magnenio medico longe praestantiss. et mathematicae scientiae regio apud Lutetiam professori. S. D. Magna certe tua laus est, Magneni doctiss<imi> qui summum semper studium — (4r) de re tota arbitratu iudicioque tuo statuas. Vale. Lutetiae, idibus Aprilis 1556. (4v) [chapter index] Argumentum huius libri in sua capita distinctum. De universo situ terrae… (5r) [text] Claudii Ptolemaei Mathematicae constructionis liber secundus. De universo situ terrae, quae a nobis incolitur. Caput I. His primo constructionis huius libro exposuis, quae de universi habitudine summatim anticipanda errant — (62r) quaesitus fuerit locus, sin occidenti, imminutio. (62v) [translator’s note to the reader] St<ephanus> Gracilis lectori ingenuo. Accipe igitur, candide lector, hanc menstrui sane laboris lucubratiunculam — temere mutandum decernat. Vale.’
Bibl. I. Pantin, ‘Teaching Mathematics and Astronomy in France: The Collège Royal (1550-1650)’, Science & Education 15 (2006), 189-207: 191; P. D. Omodeo, I. Tupikova, ‘Visual and Verbal Commentaries in Renaissance Astronomy: Erasmus Reinhold’s Treatment of Classical Sources on Astronomy’, Philological Encounters 3 (2018), 359-398: 380.
