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Penn Library's LJS 268 - Ptolemy's Almagest (Video Orientation)

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Date of this Version

Fall 2017

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Video Orientation to the University of Pennsylvania Library's LJS 268 - Almagest. Written by Ptolemy in Spain, in A.H. 783 (1381), in Arabic.

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.

See More at Penn in Hand

http://dla.library.upenn.edu/dla/medren/pageturn.html?id=MEDREN_9950583033503681

Link to OPENN

http://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs268.html

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Recommended Citation

Porter, D. (2017, October 01). Penn Library's LJS 268 - Ptolemy's Almagest (Video Orientation). [Video file.] Retrieved from https://repository.upenn.edu/sims_video/88