Marcus Tullius Cicero, Aratea (translation of Aratus of Soli, Phaenomena)
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Marcus Tullius Cicero, Aratea (translation of Aratus of Soli, Phaenomena). Decoration: 21 images of constellation figures painted by an Anglo-Saxon artist of the Ramsey Psalter (Harley MS 2904) working on the continent (ff. 36r-44v).
C. Plinius Secundus (Pliny the Elder), Excerpts from the Historia naturalis: De positione et cursu VII planetarum (II, c. viii-ix, 32-44); De intervallis earum (II, c. xx-xxii, 83-84); De absidibus earum (II, c. xv-xvi, 59-64); De cursu earum per zodiacum circulum (II, c. xvi, 66-67)
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Excerpts from C. Plinius Secundus (Pliny the Elder), Historia naturalis: De positione et cursu VII planetarum (II, c. viii-ix, 32-44); De intervallis earum (II, c. xx-xxii, 83-84); De absidibus earum (II, c. xv-xvi, 59-64); and De cursu earum per zodiacum circulum (II, c. xvi, 66-67). Decorati...