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Swerdlow, N.M. (2005). Ptolemy’s Theories of the Latitude of the Planets in the Almagest, Handy Tables, and Planetary Hypotheses. In: Buchwald, J.Z., Franklin, A. (eds) Wrong for the Right Reasons. Archimedes, vol 11. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3048-7_3
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