Collaboration from Robert H. van
Gent
Several Ptolemy portraits can found in this book:
BENNETT, J.A., & D.B. Meli, Sphaera Mundi -
Astronomy Books 1478-1600, Whipple Museum of the History
of Science, Cambridge, 1994.
Page 85 has the title page from the Folium Populi
(Ingolstadt, 1533) of Petrus Apianus with Ptolemy on the
left holding up a diagram of his planetary model and Apianus
on the left with a quadrant.
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