Penn Library's LJS 268 - Ptolemy's Almagest (Video Orientation)
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<p><a href="http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs268.html">http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs268.html</a></p>
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2017-10-01
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<p>Video Orientation to the University of Pennsylvania Library's LJS 268 - Almagest. Written by Ptolemy in Spain, in A.H. 783 (1381), in Arabic.</p>
<p>An Arabic translation of Ptolemy's Almagest, an extensive treatise on Aristotelian astronomy, considering the motion of the stars and planets in a spherical, geocentric universe.</p>