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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 : 49,25 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 : 22,51 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 : Rhetorius (6th or 7th cent.)
Publisher : American Federation of Astr
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 20,24 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Astrology
ISBN : 0866905901
This book contains the Astrological Compendium of the late Classical astrologer Rhetorius the Egyptian. It contains his Explanation and Narration of The Whole Art of Astrology, and was translated from the Greek by James Herschel Holden, M.A., Research Director of the American Federation of Astrologers. Also included are the treatises by Teucer of Babylon on the Nature of the Signs of the Zodiac and the Nature of the Seven planets. Rhetorius was the last major astrological writer of the Classical period of Greek Astrology.
Author : George Noonan
Publisher : American Federation of Astr
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 40,97 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Astrology
ISBN : 0866903763
Perhaps the least understood and most misused elements in astrology today are the fixed stars. Current practice is to consider the stars as no more than mini-manifestations of the planets whose nature they are presumed to hold. The locations of the stars projected onto the ecliptic are then considered valid points for aspectual relationships. No special significance is attributed to the non-zodiacal constellations; nor is a star's location within a constellation given any weight whatsoever. Finally, modern astrology places no distinction on the use of the stars and constellations in genethliacal astrology and the other branches of the ancient art. In this book the natures of the fixed stars and constellations as known by the classicists are discussed in detail. Methods of delineating the fixed stars are indicated, with special emphasis on the applications to judicial astrology. Included are chapters on the nature of the fixed stars; the northern, southern and zodiacal constellations; genethliacal applications of the fixed stars; judicial astrology; and three appendices with information on mathematics and rulership and a complete listing of the fixed stars.
Author : Manetho
Publisher : Ravenio Books
Page : 91 pages
File Size : 12,55 MB
Release : 2015-04-21
Category : History
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Manetho was an Egyptian historian and priest from Sebennytos who lived during the Ptolemaic era, approximately during the 3rd century BC. His work, especially his chronology of the Pharoahs, is of great interest to Egyptologists.
Author : David Juste
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Page : pages
File Size : 16,40 MB
Release : 2020
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ISBN : 9782503589473
Author : Marcus Manilius
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,31 MB
Release : 2014
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Author : Claudius Ptolemy
Publisher : BEYOND BOOKS HUB
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 25,15 MB
Release : 2021-01-01
Category : Fiction
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Tetrabiblos by Claudius Ptolemy is a seminal work on astrology and cosmology. Written by the famed Greek scholar, this classic text lays out the principles of astrological science, providing a foundational understanding for both novice and expert astrologers.
Author : O. Neugebauer
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 1486 pages
File Size : 39,42 MB
Release : 2004-09-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783540069959
From the reviews: "This monumental work will henceforth be the standard interpretation of ancient mathematical astronomy. It is easy to point out its many virtues: comprehensiveness and common sense are two of the most important. Neugebauer has studied profoundly every relevant text in Akkadian, Egyptian, Greek, and Latin, no matter how fragmentary; [...] With the combination of mathematical rigor and a sober sense of the true nature of the evidence, he has penetrated the astronomical and the historical significance of his material. [...] His work has been and will remain the most admired model for those working with mathematical and astronomical texts. D. Pingree in Bibliotheca Orientalis, 1977 "... a work that is a landmark, not only for the history of science, but for the history of scholarship. HAMA [History of Ancient Mathematical Astronomy] places the history of ancient Astronomy on a entirely new foundation. We shall not soon see its equal. N.M. Swerdlow in Historia Mathematica, 1979
Author : Claudius Ptolomaeus
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Page : 282 pages
File Size : 23,80 MB
Release : 1828
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