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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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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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