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dem origo, a Pelope Tantali filio vel ab Hercule arcessita, fabulis tegitur. Certior tamen estearum ordinatio facta ab Iphito, Eleorum rege, qui ludos post singulas tetraeterides exactascum plenilunio, quod solstitium aestivum proxime excipit, copulavit (a. 776 a. aeram Christ.).Utrum autem Graeci Solis et Lunae rationes propriis observationibus detexerint, an eas abAegyptiis didicerint, non omnino liquet, posterius tamen mihi verisimilius videtur.
12) p. 260. Ut ea, quae Keplerus ex Aristotelis Metaph. Xll, 8. membratim enumerat,facilius cognoscantur, graecum textum quem hodie habemus correctiorem addendum censemus.
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13) p. 270. Martianus Mineus Felix Capella, Carthaginiensis, seculo V. Romaeconscripsit „Satyricon,“ in quo ea, quae Keplerus refert, continentur. Edidit H. GrotiusLugd. Bat. 1599. Copernicus (Revol. coel. I. 10) haec pauca de Capella affert: Minimecontemnendum arbitror, quod M. Capella, qui Encyclopaediam scripsit, et quidam alii La-tinorum percalluerunt. Existimant enim, quod Venus et Mercurius i circumcurrant Solem inmedio existentem et eam ob causam ab illo non ulterius digredi putant, quam suorum con-vexitas orbium patiatur, quoniam Terram non ambiunt ut ceteri, sed absidas conversas ha-bent. Quid ergo aliud volunt significare, quam circa Solem esse centrum illorum orbium ?