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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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Claudius Ptolemaeus Cosmosgraphia, Ulm, 1482

Ptolemy

1963

Facsimile of the fourth edition of both the Latin text and the maps, published by Lienhart Holle at Ulm, 1482.

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Geography of Claudius Ptolemy

Ptolemy; Nicolaus Germanus; Stevenson, Edward Luther (1860-1944); Fischer, Joseph (1858-1944); New York Public Library

1932

Limited ed. of 250 copies. Includes full size reproductions of maps and accompanying descriptive text from the Codex Ebnerianus and reproductions of two maps from 16th cent. printed eds. of the Geog...

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Claudius Ptolemaeus Cosmosgraphia, Bologna, 1477

Ptolemy

1963

Facsimile of the edition published at Bologna, 1477. With introduction in English.

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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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