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Claudii Ptolemaei Opera quae Exstant Omnia, Vol. II (Heiberg)
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The work 'Claudii Ptolemaei Opera quae Exstant Omnia' (Heiberg edition) is a critical scholarly edition of Ptolemy's works in their original Greek (with some Latin apparatus). While individual treatises contained within this collection (such as the Almagest, Geography, or Planetary Hypotheses) have been translated into English, they are translated from the original Greek, not from this specific Latin-language scholarly edition. There is no English translation of this specific Latin-language critical edition.
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This volume is a detective story for the history of science. It tracks the migration of Ptolemy's lost genius through centuries of dusty manuscripts, scribal errors, and salvaged fragments.