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Almagest is the Latin form of the Arabic name (, , in English The Great Book ) of a mathematical and astronomical treatise proposing the complex motions of the stars and planetary paths, original...
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Ptolemy's treatise on astrology, the Tetrabiblos, was the most popular astrological work of antiquity and also enjoyed great influence in the Islamic world ...
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The Geography is Ptolemy's main work besides the Almagest. It is a treatise on cartography and a compilation of what was known about the world's geography in the Roman Empire of the 2nd century...
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Barker uses an analysis of Ptolemy's programmatic statements in I, 1/2, as a key to a reading of Ptolemy's treatise. His exposition has the format of a ...
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In comparison with the earlier optical work of Euclid, Ptolemy's treatise is greatly advanced in mathematical refinement and the representation of physical and physiological reality, but it is difficult to estimate its originality.
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Claudius Ptolemaeus, better known as Ptolemy, lived and worked in the middle of the 2nd century AD. His astrological textbook - the ... His astronomical treatise, the the Almagest (from the Arabic phrase Al Majesti, 'The Greatest') is a complete manuscript of the astronomical knowledge of the classical world.
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www.skyscript.co.uk/ptolemy.html
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Ptolemy's astrological outlook was practical: astrology was like medicine, conjectural, because of the many variable factors to be taken into account: the race, country, upbringing, and so forth, of the individual. ... Ptolemy's treatise on astrology, the...
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www.hps.cam.ac.uk/starry/ptolastrol.html
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This article is about the geographer and astronomer Ptolemy. For Alexander the Great's general, later ruler of Egypt, see Ptolemy I ... Ptolemy's treatise on astrology, the Tetrabiblos, was the most popular astrological work of antiquity and also enjoyed great influence in the Islamic world and the medieval Latin West.
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Another of Ptolemy's noteworthy works is his treatise on astrology known as the Tetrabiblos ("Four books", derived from the Greek words tetra, meaning "four", and biblos, meaning "book"). In it, he attempted to adapt horoscopic astrology to the Aristotelian natural philosophy of his day.
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