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	Ptolemy - Free Encyclopedia of Thelema
		The Tetrabiblos is an extensive and continually reprinted treatise on the ancient priciples of astrology in four books (Greek tetra means "four", biblos is "book").
		That it did not quite attain the unrivalled status of the Syntaxis was perhaps because it did not cover some popular areas of the subject, particularly horary astrology (interpreting astrological charts for a particular moment to determine the outcome of a course of action to be initiated at that time), electional astrology, and medical astrology.
		The great popularity that the Tetrabiblos did possess might be attributed to its nature as an exposition of the art of astrology and as a compendium of astrological lore, rather than as a manual.
	www.egnu.org /thelema/Ptolemy (1459 words)

	Ptolemy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		That it did not quite attain the unrivalled status of the Syntaxis was perhaps because it did not cover some popular areas of the subject, particularly horary astrology (interpreting astrological charts for a particular moment to determine the outcome of a course of action to be initiated at that time), electional astrology, and medical astrology.
		The great popularity that the Tetrabiblos did possess might be attributed to its nature as an exposition of the art of astrology and as a compendium of astrological lore, rather than as a manual.
		Ptolemy was concerned to defend astrology by defining its limits, compiling astrological data that he believed was reliable and dismissing practices (such as considering the numerological significance of names) that he believed to be without sound basis.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ptolemy (1515 words)

	* Tetrabiblos - (Astrology): Definition
		Tetrabiblos Ptolemy's four-volume treatise on astrology (second century).
		As explained by Ptolemy in the Tetrabiblos, the Moon and the Sun were assigned to the Rulership of Cancer and Leo because "these are the most Northerly of all the Signs, and approach nearer than any others to the Zenith of this part of the Earth...
		Third, one of the earliest commentators on the Tetrabiblos, Pancharios (as quoted by Hephaistio), did not think that Ptolemy had in mind an equal house division of the zodiac at all,...
	en.mimi.hu /astrology/tetrabiblos.html (222 words)

	Ptolemy Tetrabiblos (Loeb Classical Library #435) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Tetrabiblos (literally, "four books") was long thought to be a complete survey of Greek astrology.
		Recent research suggests this not to be the case, but Ptolemy’s work remains the foundation of western astrology.
		Book 1 of Tetrabiblos defines various technical terms and supplies other information needed by the astrologer.
	www.vacationcoachinc.com /ptolemy-tetrabiblos-loeb-classical-library-435-0674994795.html (360 words)

	Reference
		Though the Tetrabiblos is a marvel of clear organization and shows deep philosophical sophistication and subtlety, it is not clear whether Ptolemy himself was a practicing astrologer.
		A commentary on Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos is attributed to him, which is not so much a line by line commentary as an attempt to explain the technical vocabulary Ptolemy uses; this work draws heavily on Antiochus.
		He also seems to have been the first to write a commentary on Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos; Hephaistio (Bk II) cites this commentary frequently when discussing the issue of the house division to be used for the determination of length of life in Ptolemy's manner.
	www.projecthindsight.com /reference/catalog.html (3424 words)

	Watches-Ptolemy Tetrabiblos -Loeb Classical Library #435- (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The earliest surviving version of Tetrabiblos is the paraphrase attributed to Proclus the Philosopher (412-485).
		Every serious astrologer, from the 3rd century to the present, has studied the Tetrabiblos.
		My book, The Star of Bethlehem: The Legacy of the Magi also made use of other astrological primary sources which showed that to understand the Magi's Star, we need to understand astrology as it practiced as Ptolemy described.
	www.minihttpserver.net /z_watches/A_ptolemy_tetrabiblos_-0674994795.htm (956 words)

	Watches-Christian Astrology, Book 3- An Easie and Plaine Method Teaching Nativities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The earliest surviving version of Tetrabiblos is the paraphrase attribut...
		The earliest surviving version of Tetrabiblos is the paraphrase attributed to Proclus the Philosopher (412-485 AD).
		Tetrabiblos (literally, "four books") was until recently thought to be a complete survey of Greek astrology.
	www.minihttpserver.net /z_watches/A_christian_astrology_-1538101173.htm (634 words)

	Pianeti e uomini: una sola regola per tutti i loro umori
		Tetrabiblos di Claudio Tolomeo, Nuovi Orizzonti, Milano 1990, lib.
		Tetrabiblos, eccetera, io ritengo possa essere dimostrata la validità di una, mentre l'altra risulterà smentita: ed infatti nel Medioevo questo problema pare non esistesse in quanto già stato risolto.
		Tetrabiblos, I, V, 1), viene a mettere in evidenza anche la positività, bontà e necessità, sia degli umori secco e freddo, sia dei pianeti Marte e Saturno quando non eccedono, il primo in secchezza e il secondo in freddezza.
	www.cidaregioni.it /cidaregioni/it/Toscana/convegno_2000/pianeti_e_uomini.htm (4364 words)

	Ptolemy's Astrology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Tetrabiblos offered a detailed explanation of the philosophical framework of astrology, enabling its practitioners to answer critics on scientific as well as religious grounds.
		The Tetrabiblos has been referred to as 'the surrender of science' (1), an unfair statement since Ptolemy reveals no interest in magic, superstition or ideas which fall beyond the realm of reason.
		Although he maintains the importance of the angles of a chart, the Tetrabiblos shows a noticeable lack of interest in the houses, whilst other elements of astrology were considered to be completely unworthy of mention, either because they were too unscientific, too reminiscent of fortune telling, or defied any kind of rational explanation:
	ircamera.as.arizona.edu /NatSci102/text/extptolemy.htm (583 words)

	Skyscript: The Life & Work of Ptolemy by Deborah Houlding
		Only the opponents of astrology appear to have remained ignorant of the 'Tetrabiblos', continuing to make criticisms of the art which do not apply to Ptolemy's presentation of it or which had been specifically answered by him.
		The Tetrabiblos has been referred to as 'the surrender of science' ([3]), an unfair statement since Ptolemy reveals no interest in magic, superstition or ideas which fall beyond the realm of reason.
		Although he maintains the importance of the angles of a chart, the Tetrabiblos shows a noticeable lack of interest in the houses, whilst other elements of astrology were considered to be completely unworthy of mention, either because they were too unscientific, too reminiscent of fortune telling, or defied any kind of rational explanation:
	www.skyscript.co.uk /ptolemy.html (1403 words)

	Claudius Ptolemy's Zodiac Sign Lexicon in Tetrabiblos - © Dr Shepherd Simpson
		Tetrabiblos is in some ways unfamiliar to modern western astrologers.
		[See Tetrabiblos iii Chapter 2] The Sun was just one heavenly body - albeit the most important one.
		It is only in the last eighty years that Sun sign astrology has come to prominence in Western Astrology, with the advent of the newspaper astrology column.
	www.geocities.com /astrologysources/classicalgreece/tetrabiblos/ptolemylexicon.htm (1417 words)

	Alfonso X of Castile . 1252 . Middle Ages . Ptolemaic system . Moon . Ptolemy . Ancient philosophy . Hohenstaufen . ...
		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 Western world West.
		The Tetrabiblos is an extensive and continually reprinted treatise on the ancient priciples of astrology in four books Greek tetra means "four", biblos is "book".
		That it did not quite attain the unrivalled status of the Syntaxis was perhaps because it did not cover some popular areas of the subject, particularly horary astrology interpreting astrological charts for a particular moment to determine the outcome of a course of action to be initiated at...
	www.uk.knowledge-info.org /Alfonso_X_of_Castile-UK-4282442-sa (1088 words)

	Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos: Preface
		This Paraphrase of Proclus on the Tetrabiblos of Ptolemy was translated a few years ago by Leo Allatius, a Greek by birth, eminently skilled in the learning of his own nation, as well as in Latin literature, and already celebrated for other writings in both languages.
		There were several prior translations of the original Tetrabiblos in Latin and Arabic; and it appears by an extract from the Bibliotheca Græca of Fabricius [which will be found in a subsequent page], that a Latin version, done from the Arabic, was printed at Venice as early as the year 1493.
		There is abundant proof throughout the Tetrabiblos, that Ptolemy considered the virtues of the constellations of the zodiac distinctly from those of the spaces they occupied.
	www.sacred-texts.com /astro/ptb/ptb03.htm (4794 words)

	Amazon.fr : Ptolemy Tetrabiblos: Livres en anglais: F. E. Robbins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The earliest surviving version of Tetrabiblos is the paraphrase attributed to Proclus the Philosopher (412-485).
		Tetrabiblos (literally, "four books") was long thought to be a complete survey of Greek astrology.
		Recent research suggests this not to be the case, but Ptolemy’s work remains the foundation of western astrology.
	www.amazon.fr /Ptolemy-Tetrabiblos-F-E-Robbins/dp/0674994795 (517 words)

	Innergies :: View topic - Historical Astrology In Egypt
		The Tetrabiblos examined conception and birth, saying that it was better to work with the conception date and that this date should be known by observation.
		Finally, the forth book of the Tetrabiblos handled matters of occupation, marriage, children, travel, and "houses" of the zodiac.
		There were other errors in his work, mostly dealing with beliefs of the time and misinformation about astronomy; however, for the most part, the Tetrabiblos has proved invaluable to this day.
	www.innergies.com /chat/viewtopic.php?p=173 (2993 words)

	HPSC325 Magic To Science Essay 1: Ptolemaic Astrology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		This is really not such a leap of faith to make, for the elements are both physical matter and their qualities, inseparably, and thus action upon one aspect is action upon both.
		So Aristotle gives Ptolemy a way for the planets to shape someone's personality aswell as their body, which he uses by saying that the Sun and Moon have effective qualities; heating and drying, and cooling and moistening respectively, with the qualities of other planets being given in the Tetrabiblos [25].
		The influence of the other planets per se is not as readily apparent as that of the Sun and Moon, and is skilfully, and obliquely, argued [26]
	www.selsyn.co.uk /pkent/p/325_1.html (2328 words)

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		And since weaker natures always yield to the stronger, and the particular always falls under the general,1 it would by all means be necessary for those who purpose an inquiry about a single individual long before to have comprehended the more general considerations.
		Furthermore, many of the males are unsound and effeminate of soul, and some even hold in contempt the organs of generation, through the influence of the aspect of the maleficent planets in combination with Venus occidental.
		We must, then, observe the sun at rising to determine the weather by day and at setting for the weather at night, and its aspects to the moon for weather conditions of longer extent, on the assumption that each aspect, in general, foretells the condition up to the next.
	www.astrologie.cz /zacek/ptolemy/tetrabiblos2.doc (8071 words)

	Astrology history in Egypt
		All that remain are translations and copies of it, the oldest of which is Arabic and dates only to AD 900.
		His belief that the conception time was preferable to birth time is a misguided one, as conception time for an individual is actually rather difficult to calculate.
		It is thought that he may never have actually practiced astrology, and there has not been a single horoscope found that was created by him.
	touregypt.net /astro (2918 words)

	Astro Energetics: History of Astrology (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Around the 2nd century A. Ptolemy (pictured left), a Greek scientist, wrote a colossal work on astrology, which is divided into two parts: The Almagest and The Tetrabiblos.
		The Almagest deals with the movement of the Sun, Moon, and planets; The Tetrabiblos with the interpretation of these movements as they affect man and human events.
		These books are perhaps the most complete written records of ancient astronomy and astrology that have remained to us, and are a compilation of works from previous centuries.
	www.astroenergetics.com /HTML/History.html (952 words)

	Dorotheus of Sidon
		It is therefore of considerable historical interest, as well as being essential to contemporary astrologers who wish to understand the origins of current astrological rules.
		The former comprehensively describes the significance for human beings of various astronomical phenomena while the latter gives guidelines for such predictive matters as forecasting the length of life.
		However, the very fact that his work was influential in medieval Europe is a corrective to the common idea that the astrology of the 12th - 15th centuries was heavily Ptolemaic, that is, concerned with physical affects and causes and antipathetic to horary astrology, which is omitted from the Tetrabiblos.
	www.nickcampion.com /nc/history/articles/dorotheus.htm (1072 words)

	Astrology history in Egypt
		All that remain are translations and copies of it, the oldest of which is Arabic and dates only to AD 900.
		The Tetrabiblos examined conception and birth, saying that it was better to work with the conception date and that this date should be known by observation.
		His belief that the conception time was preferable to birth time is a misguided one, as conception time for an individual is actually rather difficult to calculate.
	www.touregypt.net /astro (2918 words)

	Ptolemy Tetrabiblos (Loeb Classical Library #435) from Aracaria Speciality Bookstore
		Ptolemy Tetrabiblos (Loeb Classical Library #435) from Aracaria Speciality Bookstore
		Recent research suggests this not to be the case, but Ptolemyand#146;s work remains the foundation of western astrology.
		The second was Walleyand#146;s translation, edited by Sibley and Brown, 1786, which is said to be worthless.
	www.aracaria.com.au /books/0674994795.html (383 words)

	Tetrabiblos
		Apesar do Tetrabiblos gozar da autoridade de uma Bíblia entre os autores astrológicos durante mais de mil anos, o seu texto grego só foi impresso três vezes, e não o voltou a ser desde o sec.
		X é mais antigo do que qualquer dos do Tetrabiblos, e cuja primeira edição surgiu em Basileia em 1554 com um prefácio de Melanchthon, é o documento que mais importância tem para o estudo desta obra, além do já mencionado comentário de Hieronymus Cardanus.
		O final dos manuscritos do Tetrabiblos tem constituído um problema para todos os estudiosos.
	www.bibliotecasadalsuud.com /tetrabiblos.htm (1203 words)

	Apotelesmatics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Tetrabiblos, appears to be an attempt to synthesise Ptolemy’s theories with those of Dorotheus of Sidon.
		Apotelesmatics was influential in Byzantine astrology but does not seem to have had much impact on Arabic astrology.
		Tetrabiblos, and covers such areas as conception, birth, gender, twins, injuries, ailments, the quality of soul, slaves, travel, death and the planetary time-lords.
	www.cultureandcosmos.com /books_noticed/apotelesmatics.htm (150 words)

	ANCIENT ASTROLOGY AS A COMMON ROOT FOR SCIENCE AND PSEUDO-SCIEN (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		All authors have agreed that while other cultures have merely supplemented it, the main principles, ideology, and basic methods of astrology still originate in Mesopotamia, although its contribution to the doctrine that had developed by the end of antiquity has often been underestimated (Boll 1926: 1-2).
		It was all for the sake of the astrological truth that he attempted to describe in Tetrabiblos.
		Characteristically of this period the text does not include references, therefore it is impossible to distinguish between the summary of previous studies and the author's own contribution.
	haldjas.folklore.ee /folklore/vol15/ancient.htm (5956 words)

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