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Title: Ptolemy's Tetrabiblosor Quadripartite, being four books of the influence of the stars ... with a preface, explanatory notes, and an appendix containing extracts from the Almagest of Ptolemy and the whole of his Centiloquy, together with a short notice of Mr. Ranger's zodiacal planisphere and an explanatory plateAuthor: PtolemyAdapter: ProclusOther: active 1615-1631 Philip RangerTranslator: J. M. AshmandRelease date: May 24, 2023 [eBook #70850]Language: EnglishOriginal publication: United Kingdom: W. Foulsham & Co. Ltd, 1900Credits: deaurider and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Title: Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos
or Quadripartite, being four books of the influence of the stars ... with a preface, explanatory notes, and an appendix containing extracts from the Almagest of Ptolemy and the whole of his Centiloquy, together with a short notice of Mr. Ranger's zodiacal planisphere and an explanatory plate
Author: PtolemyAdapter: ProclusOther: active 1615-1631 Philip RangerTranslator: J. M. Ashmand
Author: Ptolemy
Adapter: Proclus
Other: active 1615-1631 Philip Ranger
Translator: J. M. Ashmand
Release date: May 24, 2023 [eBook #70850]
Language: English
Original publication: United Kingdom: W. Foulsham & Co. Ltd, 1900
Credits: deaurider and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PTOLEMY'S TETRABIBLOS ***
NEWLY TRANSLATED FROM THE GREEK PARAPHRASE OF PROCLUSWITH
A PREFACE, EXPLANATORY NOTES
AND
AN APPENDIX
CONTAINING
EXTRACTS FROM THE ALMAGEST OF PTOLEMY
AND THE WHOLE OF HIS
CENTILOQUY
TOGETHER WITH
A Short Notice of Mr. Ranger’s Zodiacal Planisphere
AND AN EXPLANATORY PLATE
By J. M. ASHMAND
NEW EDITION
“Ye stars, which are the poetry of Heaven!If, in your bright leaves, we would read the fateOf men and empires,—’tis to be forgiven.”LORD BYRON.
“Ye stars, which are the poetry of Heaven!If, in your bright leaves, we would read the fateOf men and empires,—’tis to be forgiven.”LORD BYRON.
“Ye stars, which are the poetry of Heaven!If, in your bright leaves, we would read the fateOf men and empires,—’tis to be forgiven.”LORD BYRON.
“Ye stars, which are the poetry of Heaven!
If, in your bright leaves, we would read the fate
Of men and empires,—’tis to be forgiven.”
LORD BYRON.
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