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Claudius Ptolemy, Almagest

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Claudius Ptolemy (2nd century A.D.)
Almagest, early 14th century
Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 28.1, ff. 74v-75r

This work is a compendium of the geocentric systems of the world devised during the Hellenistic period. Epicycles and eccentrics are depicted on folios 74v-75r.