Tetrabiblos - Or Quadripartite

Informationen zum Autor Frank Egleston Robbins (1884–1963) was Professor of Greek at the University of Michigan. Klappentext The "Tetrabiblos" of the famous astronomer and geographer Claudius Ptolemaeus (ca. 100-178 CE) 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. Zusammenfassung In Tetrabiblos, a core text in the history of astrology, the preeminent ancient astronomer Ptolemy treats the practical use of astronomical knowledge: making predictions about individuals’ lives and the outcome of human affairs.

Product details

• Authors: Ptolemy
• Assisted by: F. E. Robbins (Translation)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.07.1989
• EAN: 9780674994799
• ISBN: 978-0-674-99479-9
• No. of pages: 496
• Dimensions: 115 mm x 168 mm x 27 mm
• Series: Loeb Classical Library
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Essays, feuilletons, literary criticism, interviews; SCIENCE / Essays, SCIENCE / Physics / Astrophysics, Literary essays, Theoretical & mathematical astronomy, Theoretical and mathematical astronomy