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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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Handbuch der mathematischen und technischen Chronologie (v.1)

Ideler, Ludwig (1766-1846); Ptolemy

1825-1826

Kanon der Regenten oder Regierungen (Claudiou Ptolemiou... Kanōn basileōn; from Nicolas B. Halma's edition with French translation, of the works of Cl. Ptolomaeus, Paris, 1813-23), 1 Bd., p. 109-114...

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Handbuch der mathematischen und technischen Chronologie (v.2)

Ideler, Ludwig (1766-1846); Ptolemy

1825-1826

Kanon der Regenten oder Regierungen (Claudiou Ptolemiou... Kanōn basileōn; from Nicolas B. Halma's edition with French translation, of the works of Cl. Ptolomaeus, Paris, 1813-23), 1 Bd., p. 109-114...

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Procli Diadochi Paraphrasis in Ptolemœi libros IV. De siderum effectionibus a Leone Allatio è Graeco in latinum conversa

Proclus (410-485); Ptolemy; Allacci, Leone (1586-1669)

1635

At head of title: author and title in Greek.

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Extracts from Ptolemy's Almagest and other works, and from the Greek commentators on the Almagest
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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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P. Ovidii Nasonis Fastorum ad Caesarem Germanicum, libri sex : Quibus Cl. Ptolomaei inerrantium stellarum significationes, quod cum Fastorum argumento maxime congruere viderentur, in gratiam studiosorum praefiximus

Ovid; Leonicus, Nicolaus; Ptolemy

1574

Ptolemy's work, translated from the Greek by Nicolaus Leonicus, has separate title page which reads: Cl. Ptolomaei inerrantium stellarum significationes.

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Claudii Ptolemaei Alexandrini Geographicæ enarrationis, libri octo

Ptolemy; Pirckheimer, Willibald (1470-1530); Servetus, Michael (1511?-1553)

1541

A second edition of the Ptolemy of Servetus, the first being that of 1535. The maps are from the same blocks as in the editions of Laurentius Fries in 1522 and W. Pirckheimer in 1525, both of which we...

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Extracts from Ptolemy's Almagest and other works, and from the Greek commentators on the Almagest (v.2)
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Extracts from Ptolemy's Almagest and other works, and from the Greek commentators on the Almagest (v.2)

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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Extracts from Ptolemy's Almagest and other works, and from the Greek commentators on the Almagest (v.3)
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Extracts from Ptolemy's Almagest and other works, and from the Greek commentators on the Almagest (v.3)

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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