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From a short comparison of terminology it is suggested that the Arabic text of Theodosius' Sphtzerica carried by two manuscripts in Hebrew script is a translation different from the one translated by Gerard of Cremona into Latin. An edition of a lemma for Proposition 11!.11 inter alia supports the hypothesis that this translation is the basis of Moses b. Tibbon's Hebrew version.
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Lorch, R. (2014). The “Second” Arabic Translation of Theodosius’ Sphaerica . In: Sidoli, N., Van Brummelen, G. (eds) From Alexandria, Through Baghdad. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36736-6_13
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