The Tetrabiblos - Quadripartite of Ptolemy
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Author(s)Claudius Ptolomaeus
ISBN / ASINB00AUPALA4
ISBN-13978B00AUPALA2
MarketplaceUnited Kingdom 🇬🇧
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THERE is no work on Astrology so often quoted, and so seldom understood, as this of Ptolemy, through the want of a translation sufficiently intelligible to assist the Student in forming an opinion of his own ; which would prevent the exclusion of real genius, in favour of the mere Linguist who has no genius at all. It requires but little argument to shew that a Translator should not only be familiar with the language, but also with the Science of his author, so as not to be reduced to the miserable shift'of endeavouring to ' explain it from the opinions of others whose works themselves want explaining, and whose systems are anything but that of Ptolemy,. The esteem they profess, and the epithet they have, given him of "Prince of Astrologers/" must not be taken as proofs that they are at all acquainted with bis system. The additional aspects, the Zodiacal directions, the direct cosmical motion, the subterrene direction by the Crepusculine and obscure Arcs, Directions to Terms, of Prorogators to Anaretas, of the Luminaries to their own Squares, and to the Lunar-Nodes, with a number of other innovations, are convincing proofs they must have been ignorant of every part of the Science as laid d«wn in the Quadripartite, except the name(...)".
THERE is no work on Astrology so often quoted, and so seldom understood, as this of Ptolemy, through the want of a translation sufficiently intelligible to assist the Student in forming an opinion of his own ; which would prevent the exclusion of real genius, in favour of the mere Linguist who has no genius at all. It requires but little argument to shew that a Translator should not only be familiar with the language, but also with the Science of his author, so as not to be reduced to the miserable shift'of endeavouring to ' explain it from the opinions of others whose works themselves want explaining, and whose systems are anything but that of Ptolemy,. The esteem they profess, and the epithet they have, given him of "Prince of Astrologers/" must not be taken as proofs that they are at all acquainted with bis system. The additional aspects, the Zodiacal directions, the direct cosmical motion, the subterrene direction by the Crepusculine and obscure Arcs, Directions to Terms, of Prorogators to Anaretas, of the Luminaries to their own Squares, and to the Lunar-Nodes, with a number of other innovations, are convincing proofs they must have been ignorant of every part of the Science as laid d«wn in the Quadripartite, except the name(...)".
