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Easily the most often cited passage in Theon of Alexandria’s Little Commentary on Ptolemy’s Handy Tables is the twelfth chapter, which is brief enough to quote in its entirety:1
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Jones, A. (2010). Ancient Rejection and Adoption of Ptolemy’s Frame of Reference for Longitudes. In: Jones, A. (eds) Ptolemy in Perspective. Archimedes, vol 23. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2788-7_2
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