Three Books on Harmonics by Claudius Ptolemy

English translations of this work exist from another source language, but this specific text has never been translated.

The work 'Harmonica' (Harmonics) by Claudius Ptolemy was originally written in Greek. The 1682 edition edited by John Wallis is a Latin translation (often accompanied by the Greek text) of the original Greek work. While modern English translations of the Greek original exist (such as those by Jon Solomon and Andrew Barker), there is no evidence of an English translation of the specific Latin text produced by Wallis in 1682. Therefore, this is a first translation from the source language (Greek) to English, but not a translation of the Latin text itself.

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