Astronomer Claudius Ptolemy lived around 100-170 CE. Very little is known about him, including where he was born. Claudius, citizen of Rome, while Ptolemy resided in Egypt. Some sources indicate that it is not a citizen of Rome, the second that he lived in Alexandria, Egypt.
He was also a mathematician, repute and astrolog. Therefore, he had his time what is the Leonardo da Vinci for revival. While many of Ptolemy's work you can refute built his writings on astronomy, astrology, geography and music based on later researchers their theory.
System Ptolemy was dominant cosmological model of the universe for centuries later and not only in the 17th century was displaced Kepler and Copernicus.
Modern astrologers believe Ptolemy as the author of one of the oldest complete manuals Astrology-Tetrabiblos (Greek), which means that the four books. Although we know that Ptolemy methods of astrology, we do not realize invented his contribution as one of the iscensättandet mass of local lore Eastern Star in an exhibition organized and motivated. Tetrabiblos offers a detailed explanation of astrology, philosophical bases its practitioners to answer critics of the scientific and religious reasons.
As the leading intellectual of his day, patronage of Ptolemy and approval of astrology to academic respectability added. While its credibility as a science as art, be it their practice in the middle ages, when many other occult studies were persecuted on religious grounds. He talked about astrology with the authority and clarity, as the Tetrabiblos, a definitive reference for astrologiska students. It was extended for Arab researchers considered to Ptolemy the last word on this, and later European companies is used in the 12th century was transferred back to Latin.
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