Ptolemy: Tetrabiblos (Loeb Classical Library No. 435)
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EAN/UPC/ISBN Code
9780674994799, 9780674994799
Author
Ptolemy
Producer
Loeb Classical Library
Pages
502
Year of production
2012
Binding
115x165
The Tetrabiblos of the famous astronomer and geographer Claudius Ptolemaeus (ca. 100–178 CE) of Egypt consists of four books, the title given in some manuscripts meaning "Mathematical Treatise in Four Books", in others "The Prognostics addressed to Syrus". The subject is astrology, which in Ptolemy"s time as down to the Renaissance was fused as a respectable science with astronomy. Translations and commentaries are few, and only three Greek texts had been printed (all in the 16th century) before the present one and the one begun by F. Boll and finished by Emilie Boer in 1940.