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Footnotes:
[1] The name of Ptolemy occurs once in The Somnours Tale (D. 2289):
“As wel as Euclide or (as) Ptholomee.”
and once in The Astrolabe, I. 17.6:
“whiche declinacioun, aftur Ptholome, is 23 degrees and 50 minutes, as wel in Cancer as in Capricorne.”
The Almagest is mentioned in The Milleres Tale (A.3208):
“His Almageste and bokes grete and smale,”