Tetrabiblos: Or Quadripartite (Loeb Classical Library, No 435) (Loeb Classical Library *CONTINS TO [email protected])

by Ptolemy

F.E. Robbins (Translator)

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Classic astrology.

The Tetrabiblos of the famous astronomer and geographer Claudius Ptolemaeus (ca. AD 100–178) 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.

  • ISBN10 0674994795
  • ISBN13 9780674994799
  • Publish Date 1 January 1940
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher Harvard University Press
  • Imprint LOEB
  • Edition New edition
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 496
  • Language English