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This is where you will compile the bibliography for your Wikipedia assignment.
Hamm, Elizabeth Anne. "Ptolemy's Planetary Theory: An English Translation of Book One, Part A of the “Planetary Hypotheses” with Introduction and Commentary." Order No. NR78211, University of Toronto (Canada), 2011. url=https://www.proquest.com/dissertations.theses/ptolemys.planetary.theory.english.translation/docview/925632371/se-2?accountid=12964.
Janos, Damien. “Al-Fārābī on the Method of Astronomy.” Early Science and Medicine 15, no. 3 (2010): 237–65. http://www.jstor.org/stable/20750216.
Ragep, Sally P. Jaghmīnī’s Mulakhkhaṣ. Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and
Physical. Cham: Springer International Publishing AG, 2017.
Sidoli, Nathan. 2020. “Mathematical Methods in Ptolemy's Analemma.” In Ptolemy's Science of the Stars in the Middle Ages, 1:35–77. Ptolemaeus Arabus et Latinus - Studies 1. Brepols Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1484/M.PALS-EB.5.120173.
