Tetrabiblos, New edition Edition
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- Hardcover
496 pages
- Release Date
1 January 1940
Summary
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 means ‘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.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780674994799 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0674994795 |
| Author: | Ptolemy, F.E. Robbins |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press |
| Imprint: | LOEB |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 496 |
| Edition: | New edition |
| Release Date: | 1 January 1940 |
| Weight: | 362g |
| Dimensions: | 35mm x 116mm x 171mm |
| Series: | Loeb Classical Library |
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Frank Egleston Robbins (1884–1963) was Professor of Greek at the University of Michigan.
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