Almagest by Ptolemy

ID: almagest-by-ptolemy

Primary text transcription of the 1515 Latin edition: ptolemaeus.badw.de/print/1/70/text/1
Digitized specimen: www.loc.gov/item/76517936/
Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus provides the primary text transcribed by Stefan Georges. Book I lays out the stationary terrestrial framework; the later planetary books construct geometrical predictive models. The 1515 printing date is not the composition date.

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