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Peters C. H. F. Knobel E. , Ptolemy's catalogue of stars: A revision of the Almagest (Washington, DC, 1915).

Toomer G. J. , Ptolemy's Almagest (Princeton, NJ, 1998), 341–99.

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Graßhoff , op. cit. (ref. 4), 224.

See the notes in Toomer , op. cit. (ref. 3), 342 and Peters Knobel , op. cit. (ref. 2), 96.

Jaschek C. , “A tape version of Ptolemy's star catalogue”, Bulletin d'information du CDS , no. 33 (1987), 145. Available at http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/Cat?V/61. Derived from Manitius K. , op. cit. (ref. 1). The CDS has become the primary international repository for astronomical data catalogues. Jaschek was its director from 1974 to 1990.

Toomer , op. cit. (ref. 3), p. xii.

Wagman M. , Lost stars (Blacksburg, VA, 2003), 168.

Graßhoff G. , personal correspondence. The error in the table was discovered before the book was published but too late to correct it.