The "
Tetrabiblos" of the famous astronomer, astrologer, and geographer Claudius Ptolemaeus (c.100-178 CE) of Egypt consists of four books.
The subject of the work is astrology, which in Ptolemy\'s time as down to the Renaissance was fused as a respectable science with astronomy..
The title given in some manuscripts meaning \'Mathematical Treatise in Four Books\', in others \'The Prognostics addressed to Syrus\'.
The "
Tetrabiblos" of the famous astronomer, astrologer, and geographer Claudius Ptolemaeus (c.100-178 CE) of Egypt consists of four books