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Brummelen, G. Taking Latitude with Ptolemy: al- Novel Geometric Model of the Motions of the Inferior Planets. Arch. Hist. Exact Sci. 60, 353–377 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00407-006-0110-z
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