Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos : or, Quadripartite : being four books of the influence of the stars
Historical edition · 1900 · 87,570 words
A historical astrology & divination text by Ptolemy, active 2nd century. This 1900 edition is presented in searchable text, transcribed from a library scan.
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From these premises it follows not only that all bodies, which may be already compounded, are subjected to the motion of the stars, but also that the impregnation and growth of the seeds from which all bodies proceed, are framed and moulded by the quality existing in the Ambient at the time of such impregnation and growth. And it is upon this principle that the more observant husbandmen and shepherds are accustomed, by drawing their inferences from the particular breezes which may happen at seed-time and at the impregnation of their cattle, to form predictions as to the quality of the expected …
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