PAL

Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus

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Work C.1.31

Ercole Bottrigari
Mathematicae operationes omnes quae in Magnae Ptolemaei compositionis astronomicae libris XIII continentur

Over 1,000 pages filled with re-calculations (with diagrams but virtually no text) of the propositions and demonstrations of the Almagest by Ercole Bottrigari (1531-1612), mathematician and musician in Bologna. The only known manuscript is Bottrigari’s autograph, dated Bologna 1560.

Text ‘(Bologna, BU, 326) Mathematicae operationes omnes quae in Magnae Cl<audi> Ptolemaei Pelusiensibus Alexandrini compositionis astronomicae, Almagesti vulgo nuncupatae, lib<ris> XIII continentur… Ab Hercule Bottrigario geometrice ac arithmetice propria eius manu demonstratae, Bononiae, 1560.’

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