"Tetrabiblos" from Ptolemy. Greco-roman writer of Alexandria, known as a mathematician, astronomer, geographer, astrologer, and poet (90-168A.D.).

Superb general account.' Times Literary Supplement The story of the history of Western astrology begins with the philosophers of Greece in the 5th century BC. T

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