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Some Remarks on the Almagestum parvum

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In the Speculum astronomiae attributed to Albertus Magnus (d. 1280) an astronomical work based on Ptolemy’s Almagest and Al-BattĀnĪ’s astronomical work beginning “Inter universa ...„ is reported:1

Ex hiis quoque duobus libris collegit quidam vir librum secundum stilum Euclidis, cuius commentarium continet sententiam utriusque, Ptolemaei scilicet at que Albategni, qui sic incipit: Omnium recte philosophantium etc.

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  1. Institute for the History of Science and Technology, Staropanskii per. 1/5, 103 012, Moscow, Russia

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  2. Arbeitsgruppe für Geschichte der Mathematik und Naturwissenschaften, Universität Mainz Fachbereich Mathematik, Saarstrasse 21, D-W-6500, Mainz, Germany

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    Christoph J. Scriba

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Lorch, R. (1992). Some Remarks on the Almagestum parvum . In: Demidov, S.S., Rowe, D., Folkerts, M., Scriba, C.J. (eds) Amphora. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0348-8599-7_20

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