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Ptolemy Tetrabiblos or Quadrripartite Being Four Books Of
The Influence Of The Stars newly TRANSLATED From the
Greek paraphrase Of Proclus With A Preface + MASSIVE FOOT
NOTES + APPENDIX CONTAINING - Extracts From The Almagest
Of Ptolemy AND The Whole Of his Centiloquy . By - J. M.
ASHMAND[1]
Sir Isaac Newton has the following remarks in regard to
the origin of Astrology:--"After the study of Astronomy
was set on foot for the use of navigation, and the
gyptians, by the heliacal risings and settings of the
stars, had determined the length of the solar year of 365
days, and by other observations had fixed the solstices,
and formed the fixed stars into asterisms, all which was
done in the reigns of Ammon, Sesac, Orus, and Memnon,"
(about 1000 years before Christ), "it may be presumed
that they continued to observe the motions of the
planets, for they called them after the names of their
gods; and Nechepsos, or Nicepsos, King of Sais," [772
B.C.], "by the assistance of Petosiris, a priest of gypt,
invented astrology, grounding it upon the aspects of the
planets, and the qualities of the men and women to whom
they were dedicated *1; and in the beginning of the reign
of Nabonassar, King of Babylon, about which time the
thiopians, under Sabacon, invaded gypt" [751 B.C.],
"those gyptians who fled from him to Babylon, carried
thither the gyptian year of 365 days, and the study of
astronomy and astrology, and founded the a era of
Nabonassar, dating it from the first year of that king's
reign" [747 B.C.], "and beginning the year on the same
day with the gyptians for the sake of their calculations.
So Diodorus: 'they say that the Chald an in Babylon,
being colonies of the gyptians, became famous for
astrology, having learned it from the priests of gypt.'"--
Newton's Chronology, pp. 251, 252.
The arcana of Astrology constituted a main feature in the
doctrines of the Persian Magi; and it further appears, by
Newton's Chronology, p. 347, that Zoroaster (although the
ra of his life has been erroneously assigned to various
remoter periods) lived in the reign of Darius Hystaspis,
about 520 B.C., and assisted Hystaspes, the father of
Darius, in reforming the Magi, of whom the said Hystaspes
was Master. Newton adds, p. 352, that "about the same
time with Hystaspes and Zoroaster, lived also Ostanes,
another eminent Magus: Pliny places him under Darius
Hystaspis, and Suidas makes him the follower of
Zoroaster: he came into Greece with Xerxes about 480
B.C., and seems to be the Otanes of Herodotus. In his
book, called the Octateuchus, he taught the same doctrine
of the Deity as Zoroaster."
The world is divided into two parts, the elemental region
and the thereal. The elemental region is constantly
subject to alteration, and comprises the four elements;
earth, water, air and fire. The thereal region, which
philosophers call the fifth essence, encompasses, by its
concavity, the elemental; its substance remains always
unvaried, and consists of ten spheres; of which the
greater one always spherically environs the next smaller,
and so on in consecutive order. First, therefore, around
the sphere of fire, GOD, the creator of the world, placed
the sphere of the Moon, then that of Mercury, then that
of Venus, then that of the Sun, and afterwards those of
Mars, of Jupiter, and of Saturn. Each of these spheres,
however, contains but one star: and these stars, in
passing through the zodiac, always struggle against the
primum mobile, or the motion of the tenth sphere; they
are also entirely luminous. In the next place follows the
firmament, which is the eighth or starry sphere, and
which trembles or vibrates (trepidat) in two small
circles at the beginning of Aries and Libra (as placed in
the ninth sphere); this motion is called by astronomers
the motion of the access and recess of the fixed stars."
(Probably in order to account for the procession of the
equinoxes.) "This is surrounded by the ninth sphere,
called the chrystalline or watery heaven, because no star
is discovered in it. Lastly, the primum mobile, styled
also the tenth sphere, encompasses all the before-
mentioned thereal spheres, and is continually turned upon
the poles of the world, by one revolution in twenty-four
hours, from the east through the meridian to the west,
again coming round to the east. At the same time, it
rolls all the inferior spheres round with it, by its own
force; and there is no star in it. Against this primum
mobile, the motion of the other spheres, running from the
west through the meridian to the east, p. 3 contends.
Whatever is beyond this, is fixed and immovable, and the
professors of our orthodox faith affirm it to be the
empyrean heaven which GOD inhabits with the elect."--
Cosmographia of Peter Apianus (named Benewitz), dedicated
to the Archbishop of Saltzburg, edited by Gemma Frisius,
and printed at Antwerp 1574.
The practice of observing the stars began in gypt in the
days of Ammon, as above, and was propagated from thence,
in the reign of his son Sesac, into Afric, Europe, and
Asia, by conquest; and then Atlas formed the sphere of
the Libyans" [956 B.C.], "and Chiron that of the Greeks
[939 B.C.]; and the Chald ans also made a sphere of their
own. But astrology p. xii was invented in gypt by
Nichepsos, or Necepsos, one of the Kings of the Lower
gypt, and Petosiris his priest, a little before the days
of Sabacon, and propagated thence into Chald a, where
Zoroaster, the legislator of the Magi, met with it: so
Paulinus;
References
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