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"Tetrabiblos" from Ptolemy. Greco-roman writer of Alexandria, known as a mathematician, astronomer, geographer, astrologer, and poet (90-168A.D.).
Author : Ptolemy
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 23,56 MB
Release : 2015-05-17
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ISBN : 9781512254617
"Tetrabiblos" from Ptolemy. Greco-roman writer of Alexandria, known as a mathematician, astronomer, geographer, astrologer, and poet (90-168A.D.).
Author : S. J. Tester
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 33,70 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780851152554
Superb general account.' Times Literary Supplement The story of the history of Western astrology begins with the philosophers of Greece in the 5th century BC. To the magic and stargazing of Egypt the Greeks added numerology, geometryand rational thought. The philosophy of Plato and later of the Stoics made astrology respectable, and by the time Ptolemy wrote his textbook the Tetrabiblos, in the second century AD, the main lines of astrological practice as it is known today had already been laid down. In future centuries astrology shifted to Islam only to return to the West in medieval times where it flourished until the shift of ideas during the Renaissance.
Author : Thomas H. Burgoyne
Publisher : Book Tree
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 29,96 MB
Release : 1999-10
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781585090525
Volume Two continues where Part One left offwithin the areas of the zodiac and astro-theology. Advanced information, at a higher level than Volume One. Contains more information on astrology than any book you are likely to see. It is a small occult library in itself, commonly used as a text for esoteric knowledge, whether alone or part of a group. Both books contain spiritual truths not found elsewhere, mostly concerning mans place in the universe, both here and after death.
Author : Jacqueline Feke
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 13,40 MB
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 069121039X
A stimulating intellectual history of Ptolemy's philosophy and his conception of a world in which mathematics reigns supreme The Greco-Roman mathematician Claudius Ptolemy is one of the most significant figures in the history of science. He is remembered today for his astronomy, but his philosophy is almost entirely lost to history. This groundbreaking book is the first to reconstruct Ptolemy’s general philosophical system—including his metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics—and to explore its relationship to astronomy, harmonics, element theory, astrology, cosmology, psychology, and theology. In this stimulating intellectual history, Jacqueline Feke uncovers references to a complex and sophisticated philosophical agenda scattered among Ptolemy’s technical studies in the physical and mathematical sciences. She shows how he developed a philosophy that was radical and even subversive, appropriating ideas and turning them against the very philosophers from whom he drew influence. Feke reveals how Ptolemy’s unique system is at once a critique of prevailing philosophical trends and a conception of the world in which mathematics reigns supreme. A compelling work of scholarship, Ptolemy’s Philosophy demonstrates how Ptolemy situated mathematics at the very foundation of all philosophy—theoretical and practical—and advanced the mathematical way of life as the true path to human perfection.
Author : Ptolemy
Publisher :
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 10,81 MB
Release : 1828
Category : Astrology
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Author : Claudius Ptolemaeus
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,42 MB
Release : 1971
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ISBN : 9780852291634
Author : Christian Heinrich Friedrich Peters
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 22,31 MB
Release : 2022-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781015457614
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Author : David Juste
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 36,78 MB
Release : 2020
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ISBN : 9782503589473
Author : Claudius Ptolomaeus
Publisher :
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 17,3 MB
Release : 1828
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Author : Marcus Manilius
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,26 MB
Release : 2014
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