Now that we’ve completed the parallax table, we should discuss how to use it. As usual, Ptolemy will now walk us through the steps, but does not provide an explicit example so I’ll follow an example from Neugebauer1, to help illustrate the procedure.
As our goal, Ptolemy states that our goal is to find
the moon’s parallax at any given position, (first) with respect to the great circle drawn through the moon and zenith
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