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I, kXAYAIOY nxOAEMAIOY APMONIKaN BIBAIA T\ 
CLAUDII PTOLEM^I Harntonicorum Libri tres. Ex 
Codd. jyffl Vndecim, nmcfrimum Gr^ce Editu Johan- 
nes Wallis, ff, Hh. D. CeomtrU Frofeffbr Saviliauus 
Oxonia^ Regi^ SocieUtk Londini Sodalif, RegUque 
Majeftaita SacrU ^ RecenfuH^ Edidit^ Verftone & Uo* 
' tis jlluBravity & AuHarium adjecti. Oxonii^ e theor 
' " tro shcldomano^ A.D. 1682. In Quarto. 
THis work having been neveV before Printed in 
Greeks and but very imperfeftly in Latwe^ by 
Anton. Gegavinm of Gr^z^e/jabove a loo Years fince^when 
good skill in theGreeJ^Tongue was more rare; our learned 
ProfefTor took it for a Task well agreeing with his Pro- 
vince, to give it us in a more perfeS: Edition. For which 
purpofe, he hath moft diligently compared the Mann- 
fcrip Copies, for reftoring and pcrfefting the (Tree^Tcxt. 
And ad joyned a new Latine Tranflation of the whole : 
together, with T^otes ontheTexf. Therein reftifying 
many Miftakesof theT* ranfcrUers 5 efpccially in the N««/- 
hers 5 which f by Calculation of the whole anew, accor- 
ding to the mind of PtoUmyj declared in the Text) he 
hath rcftored to their Integrity. 
This Work of r^(?/e;5^/j/5gives an Account of the Nature 
of Sounds in general, but efpecially of thofe which are 
Mujical^ as of the feveral Sorts of Tone} ^ artd their Ra- 
tios one to another 5 with other Particular?. Shewing 
alfo,how Harmony may be fitly compared to the Motions 
of the Humane Soul j and thofe oiC^'lefi id Bodys. And 
is the more confiderable, as being not only the beft of all 
the Greek^MuJicians'-i but as it aifo gives an Account of the 
reft 3 wherein they agreed, or difagreed, one with ano- 
ther, and upon what Principles. 
There is alfo added an Appendix^ by the Do^or^ Con- 
taining a brief Account of the Ancient Harmonic^SyaccoT' 
ding to the different SeSs of the Afdhors^ compared one 
witnanothcr 3 and with the Mupl^of this^ge : Shewing 
how 
