Ptolemy’s Tetrabiblos or Quadripartite Being Four Books of the Influence of the Stars
A Short Notice of Mr. Ranger’s Zodiacal Planisphere
AND AN EXPLANATORY PLATE
By J. M. ASHMAND
“Ye stars, which are the poetry of Heaven!
If, in your bright leaves, we would read the fate
Of men and empires,—’tis to be forgiven.”
LORD BYRON.
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WORK CONTAINING THE BEST ACCREDITED PRINCIPLES
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ASTROLOGY
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WHICH COULD ALONE HAVE RESTORED
INTEREST TO THE SPECULATIONS
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