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.
Published 1898–1907, this three-part collection, edited by the Danish philologist Johan Ludvig Heiberg (1854–1928), contains the extant astronomical works in... Læs mere
Published 1898–1907, this three-part collection, edited by the Danish philologist Johan Ludvig Heiberg (1854–1928), contains the extant astronomical works in... Læs mere
Ptolemy’s The Almagest brought together the ideas of Greek Antiquity, that the sun and planets revolved around the earth, the geocentric view which was... Læs mere