Tetrabiblos

The Tetrabiblos of the famous astronomer and geographer Claudius Ptolemaeus (ca. The subject is astrology, which in Ptolemy's time as down to the Renaissance was fused as a respectable science with astronomy. 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'.

Boll and finished by Emilie Boer in 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.