= Almagest by Ptolemy
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Primary text transcription of the 1515 Latin edition: https://ptolemaeus.badw.de/print/1/70/text/1
Digitized specimen: https://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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