The astronomer Claudius Ptolemy lived from about 100-170 CE. Very little is accepted of him, including area he was born. Claudius agency aborigine of Rome, while Ptolemy agency aborigine of Egypt. Some sources announce that he was a aborigine of Rome, others that he lived in Alexandria, Egypt.
He was additionally a mathematician, geographer and astrologer. In a way, he was to his era what Leonardo da Vinci was to the Renaissance. While abounding of Claudius Ptolemy’s assignment has been refuted, his treatises on astronomy, astrology, cartography and music were the foundations from which consecutive scientists congenital their theories.
The Ptolemaic arrangement of the cosmos became the ascendant cosmological archetypal for centuries thereafter, and was not displaced until the seventeenth aeon by Kepler and Copernicus.
Modern astrologers accede Ptolemy as the columnist of one of the oldest complete manuals of astrology, - the Tetrabiblos (Greek) acceptation Four Books. Although we apperceive Ptolemy did not ad-lib his methods of astrometry we admit his addition as actuality one of orchestrating the accumulation of Eastern brilliant belief into an organized and articular exposition. The Tetrabiblos offered a abundant account of the abstract framework of astrology, enabling its practitioners to acknowledgment critics on accurate as able-bodied as religious grounds.
As a arch bookish of his day, Ptolemy's advocacy and approval of astrometry added to its bookish respectability. By attention its believability as a science as able-bodied as an art, he safeguarded its convenance during the medieval aeon aback abounding added abstruse studies were afflicted on religious grounds. He batten of astrometry with ascendancy and lucidity, establishing the Tetrabiblos as the absolute advertence for abstruse students. It was acclimated abundantly by Arabic scholars, who admired Ptolemy as the final chat on the subject, and after by European ones aback it was translated aback into Latin in the 12th century.
He was additionally a mathematician, geographer and astrologer. In a way, he was to his era what Leonardo da Vinci was to the Renaissance. While abounding of Claudius Ptolemy’s assignment has been refuted, his treatises on astronomy, astrology, cartography and music were the foundations from which consecutive scientists congenital their theories.
The Ptolemaic arrangement of the cosmos became the ascendant cosmological archetypal for centuries thereafter, and was not displaced until the seventeenth aeon by Kepler and Copernicus.
Modern astrologers accede Ptolemy as the columnist of one of the oldest complete manuals of astrology, - the Tetrabiblos (Greek) acceptation Four Books. Although we apperceive Ptolemy did not ad-lib his methods of astrometry we admit his addition as actuality one of orchestrating the accumulation of Eastern brilliant belief into an organized and articular exposition. The Tetrabiblos offered a abundant account of the abstract framework of astrology, enabling its practitioners to acknowledgment critics on accurate as able-bodied as religious grounds.
As a arch bookish of his day, Ptolemy's advocacy and approval of astrometry added to its bookish respectability. By attention its believability as a science as able-bodied as an art, he safeguarded its convenance during the medieval aeon aback abounding added abstruse studies were afflicted on religious grounds. He batten of astrometry with ascendancy and lucidity, establishing the Tetrabiblos as the absolute advertence for abstruse students. It was acclimated abundantly by Arabic scholars, who admired Ptolemy as the final chat on the subject, and after by European ones aback it was translated aback into Latin in the 12th century.