《Tetrabiblos》The TriplicitiesClaudius Ptolemy（Ashmand 英譯 1822）
It should further be observed, that those who support this opinion seem (by so doing) not only to dispute the quantity of the terms most generally received, but to be driven also to the necessity of falsifying many points; since (as it is indispensable to keep to the same total amount of all the terms together) they make use of parts of degrees; but even that contrivance does not enable them to reach the true point.
段落 tetra-1-thetriplic-35public-domain (Ashmand 1822)
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