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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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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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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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Guido Bonatus de Forlivio, Decem continens tractatus astronomie

Bonatti, Guido; Angelus, Johannes (1463-1512)

1491

Title page preceded by 14 leaves containing "Registrum Guidonis Bonati de Forliuio". Explicit: Liber astronomicus Guidonis Bonati de Forliuio explicit feliciter. Magistri Johannis Angeli viri periti...

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[Flores astrologiae]

Abū Maʻshar (886); Johannes, Hispalensis; Ratdolt, Erhard (1447?-1528); Capé, Charles-François (1806-1867); Schedel, Hartmann (1440-1514); Redgrave, G R (1844-1941); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930)

Xiiij. Kal[endas] Dece[m]bris.M.cccc.lxxxviij. [18 November 1488]

Signatures: a-b⁸ c⁴. Imprint from colophon. Colophon on c3v reads:Opus floru[m] Albumasaris explicit feliciter Erhardi Ratdolt Augustensis viri solertis eximia industria : & mira imprimendi ar...

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Sphaera mundi

Sacro Bosco, Joannes de (fl. 1230); Regiomontanus, Johannes (1436-1476); Peurbach, Georg von (1423-1461); Guglielmo da Trino (1486-1494); Schwarz, Simon Magister; Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930)

Anno Salutis. M.cccc.lxxxxi. die.xiiii.Ianuarii. [14 January 1491]

Signatures: a-f⁸. Imprint from colophon. Colophon on f7v reads: Hoc quoq[ue] sideralis scientie singulare opusculum Impressum est Venetiis per Magistrum Gullielmum de Tridino de Monteferrato Ann...

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Clarissimi uiri Iginij Poeticon astronomicon opus vtilissimmu[m] foeliciter incipit

Hyginus, Caius Julius; Sentinus, Jacobus; Santritter, Joannes Lucilius; Ratdolt, Erhard (1447?-1528); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930)

Anno Salutis. 1482. Pridie Idus.Octobris. [14 October 1482]

Signatures: a-f⁸ g¹⁰. Date and place of printing from colophon. Colophon on g10r reads: Anno Salutis. 1482. Pridie Idus. Octobris. Uenetijs. The verses immediately preceding the colophon na...

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Sphera mundi : cum tribus commentis nuper editis vz. Cicchi Esculani, Francisci Capuani de Manfredonia, Jacobi Fabri Stapulensis

Sacro Bosco, Joannes de (fl. 1230); Peurbach, Georg von (1423-1461); Cecco d'Ascoli (1269-1327); Capuano, Francesco (fl. 1490); Lefèvre d'Etaples, Jacques (1536)

1499 [23 Oct. 1499]

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Iulii Firmici Astronomicorum libri octo integri, & emendati, ex Scythicis oris ad nos nuper allati : Marci Manilii Astronomicorum libri quinque. Arati Phænomena Germanico Cæsare interprete cum commentariis & imaginibus. Arati eiusdem Phænomenon fragmentum Marco. T.C. interprete. Arati eiusdem Phænomena Ruffo Festo Auienio paraphraste. Arati eiusdem Phænomena Græce[.] Theonis commentaria copiosissima in Arati Phænomena Græce. Procli Diadochi Sphæra Græce[.] Procli eiusdem Sphæra, Thoma Linacro Britanno interprete

Germanicus Caesar (15 B.C.-19 A.D); Theon of Alexandria; Aratus Solensis; Cicero, Marcus Tullius; Proclus (410-485); Linacre, Thomas (1460-1524); Negro, Pescennio Francesco (1452-); Rufus, Sextus; Manilius, Marcus; Firmicus Maternus, Julius; Manuzio, Aldo (1515); Wedelicki, Piotr (1543); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930)

Mense octob[ris]. M. ID. [October 1499]

Signatures: [*]⁶ a-g¹⁰ h¹² aa-hh¹⁰ ii-kk⁸ A-D¹⁰ E¹² F⁶ G-M¹⁰ N⁶ ²N¹⁰ O-S¹⁰ T⁸. Imprint from the second colophon on T8r. The first colophon on kk8r reads: Venetiis ...

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