PTOLEMY’S TETRABIBLOS
OR
QUADRIPARTITE

BEING
FOUR BOOKS
OF THE
INFLUENCE OF THE STARS

NEWLY TRANSLATED FROM THE GREEK PARAPHRASE OF PROCLUS
WITH

A PREFACE, EXPLANATORY NOTES

AND

AN APPENDIX

CONTAINING

EXTRACTS FROM THE ALMAGEST OF PTOLEMY

AND THE WHOLE OF HIS

CENTILOQUY

TOGETHER WITH

A Short Notice of Mr. Ranger’s Zodiacal Planisphere

AND AN EXPLANATORY PLATE

By J. M. ASHMAND

NEW EDITION

London:
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DEALERS IN SCIENTIFIC BOOKS
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Made and Printed in Great Britain

TO THE
AUTHOR OF “WAVERLEY”
THIS TRANSLATION
OF A
WORK CONTAINING THE BEST ACCREDITED PRINCIPLES
OF
ASTROLOGY

IS DEDICATED
With the most profound admiration of his unrivalled Talents

WHICH COULD ALONE HAVE RESTORED
INTEREST TO THE SPECULATIONS
OF AN
ANTIQUATED SCIENCE

The use recently made of Astrology in the poeticalmachinery of certain works of genius (which are of the highestpopularity, and above all praise), seems to have excited in the worldat large a desire to learn something of the mysteries of that sciencewhich has, in all former ages, if not in these days, more or lessengaged reverence and usurped belief. The apparent existence of such ageneral desire has caused the completion of the following Translation,and its presentation to the public; although it was originallyundertaken only in part, and merely to satisfy two or three individualsof the grounds on which the now neglected doctrines of Astrology had solong and so fully maintained credit.