Ptolemy
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Claudius Ptolemaeus (Greek: Κλαύδιος Πτολεμαῖος; ca. 100 – ca. 178), known in English as Ptolemy, was an ancient Greek geographer, astronomer, and astrologer who probably lived and worked in Alexandria, off the coast of Egypt.
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[edit] Almagest
- I know that I am mortal by nature and ephemeral, but when I trace at my pleasure the windings to and fro of the heavenly bodies, I no longer touch earth with my feet. I stand in the presence of Zeus himself and take my fill of ambrosia.
- Penned in the margins.
[edit] Tetrabiblos
- Everything that is hard to attain is easily assailed by the generality of men.
- Book I, sec. 1
- The length of life takes the leading place among inquiries about events following birth.
- Book III, sec. 10
- As material fortune is associated with the properties of the body, so honor belongs to those of the soul.
- Book IV, sec. 1
- There are three classes of friendship and enmity, since men are so disposed to one another either by preference or by need or through pleasure and pain.
- Book IV, sec. 7
[edit] External links
- Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos at LacusCurtius (English translation, with introductory material)
- Ptolemy's Geography at LacusCurtius (English translation, incomplete)
