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Extracts from Ptolemy's Almagest and other works, and from the Greek commentators on the Almagest 9 (v.1)

Ptolemy; Theon of Alexandria; Porphyry (234-305); Rhabdas, Nicolaus Artabasdos

[14--? ]

Volume 1 contains extracts from Ptolemy Mathematike Syntaxis (the Almagest), together with two other short works on astronomy by Ptolemy (c. 2 AD), and extracts from the commentary on the Mathematike ...

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Cl. v. Johannis Bainbrigii, astronomiae in celeberrima Academia Oxonensi Professoris Saviliani, Canicularia : una cum demonstratione ortus Sirii heliaci, pro parallelo inferioris Aegypti

Bainbridge, John (1582-1643); Greaves, John (1602-1652); Ulugh Beg (1394-1449)

1648

Table (p. 82-116) in Persian with Latin translation on facing pages. Errata: p. [1] at end.

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Extracts from Ptolemy's Almagest and other works, and from the Greek commentators on the Almagest 9 (v.1)

Ptolemy; Theon of Alexandria; Porphyry (234-305); Rhabdas, Nicolaus Artabasdos

[14--? ]

Volume 1 contains extracts from Ptolemy Mathematike Syntaxis (the Almagest), together with two other short works on astronomy by Ptolemy (c. 2 AD), and extracts from the commentary on the Mathematike ...

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Novae theoricae planetarvm

Peurbach, Georg von (1423-1461); Apian, Peter (1495-1552)

1537

Imprint from colophon. Diagram on t.-p. repeated on verso of L16.

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Ipparchou Bithynou tōn Aratou kai Eudoxou Phainomenōn ēxēgēseōn biblia g' = Hipparchi Bithyni in Arati et Eudoxi Phænomena libri III. Eiusdem liber asterismorum. Achillis Statii in Arati Phaenomena. Arati vita, & fragmenta aliorum veterum in eius poema

Hipparchus (fl. 190-127 B.C); Achilles Tatius; Vettori, Pietro (1499-1585)

1567

Colophon reads: Florentiae : Apud heredes Bernardi Iuntæ, 1567. Edited by Pietro Vettori. Some errors in pagination.

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Avtolyci De sphera qvæ movetvr liber. & Theodosii Tripolitæ De habitationibvs liber. Omnia scholijs antiquis, & figuris illustrata: De Vaticana Bibliotheca deprompta: & nunc primum in lucem edita

Autolycus; Theodosius; Maurolico, Francesco (1495-1575); Auria, Josephus

1587

"Theodosii Tripolitæ De Habitationibvs liber," p. [33]-70.

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Muhamedis Alfragani Arabis Chronologica et astronomica elementa, e Palatinæ Bibliothecæ veteribus libris versa, expleta, & scholiis expolita. Additus est commentarius, qui rationem calendarii Romani, Ægyptiaci, Arabici, Persici, Syriaci, et Hebræi explicat

al-Farghānī (fl. 861); Aubrius, Joannes; Christmann, Jakob (1554-1613); Haeredes Andreae Wecheli

1590

Signatures: )(⁸ A-Z⁸ 2A-2M⁸ 2N⁴. Based largely on the Hebrew translation by Jacob Anatoli, [Yesodot ha-tẹchuna], and on the Latin translation by Johannes Hispalensis. Cf. Dictionary of Sci...

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Muhamedis Alfragani Arabis Chronologica et astronomica elementa, e Palatinæ Bibliothecæ veteribus libris versa, expleta, & scholiis expolita. Additus est commentarius, qui rationem calendarii Romani, Ægyptiaci, Arabici, Persici, Syriaci, et Hebræi explicat

al-Farghānī (fl. 861); Aubrius, Joannes; Christmann, Jakob (1554-1613); Haeredes Andreae Wecheli

1590

Signatures: )(⁸ A-Z⁸ 2A-2M⁸ 2N⁴. Based largely on the Hebrew translation by Jacob Anatoli, [Yesodot ha-tẹchuna], and on the Latin translation by Johannes Hispalensis. Cf. Dictionary of Sci...

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