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The search for the origin of the Ptolemaic star catalogue requires a meticulous edition of the text and a correct identification of the ancient positional description with the stars known by their modern names. All of the investigations of this century have relied on the editions of Heiberg and Manitius and the coordinate recalculation of Peters/Knobel, published in 1915.
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Graßhoff, G. (1990). The Analysis of the Star Catalogue. In: The History of Ptolemy’s Star Catalogue. Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences, vol 14. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4468-4_5
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