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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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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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Aristarchi De magnitudinibus, et distantiis solis, et lunae, liber : cum Pappi Alexandrini explicationibus quibusdam

Aristarchus of Samos; Pappus of Alexandria; Commandino, Federico (1509-1575); Franceschini, Camillo (1560-1596)

1572

Title vignette. Also has title: De magnitudinibus, et distantiis solis, et lunae, liber.

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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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