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Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos

by Ptolemy

76 chapters, about 63,000 words. The text is in the public domain in the United States and comes from Project Gutenberg.

Chapters

  1. ADVERTISEMENT 100 words
  2. PREFACE 4,500 words
  3. PROEM 300 words
  4. CHAPTER II 2,700 words
  5. THAT PRESCIENCE IS USEFUL 2,200 words
  6. THE INFLUENCES OF THE PLANETARY ORBS 500 words
  7. BENEFICS AND MALEFICS 100 words
  8. MASCULINE AND FEMININE 200 words
  9. DIURNAL AND NOCTURNAL 300 words
  10. CHAPTER VIII 300 words
  11. THE INFLUENCE OF THE FIXED STARS 1,100 words
  12. CONSTELLATIONS NORTH OF THE ZODIAC 200 words
  13. CONSTELLATIONS SOUTH OF THE ZODIAC 200 words
  14. THE ANNUAL SEASONS 300 words
  15. THE INFLUENCE OF THE FOUR ANGLES 500 words
  16. TROPICAL, EQUINOCTIAL, FIXED, AND BICORPOREAL SIGNS 300 words
  17. MASCULINE AND FEMININE SIGNS 400 words
  18. MUTUAL CONFIGURATIONS OF THE SIGNS 400 words
  19. SIGNS BEHOLDING EACH OTHER, AND OF EQUAL POWER 200 words
  20. SIGNS INCONJUNCT 700 words
  21. HOUSES OF THE PLANETS 200 words
  22. THE TRIPLICITIES 600 words
  23. EXALTATIONS 400 words
  24. THE DISPOSITION OF THE TERMS[54] 400 words
  25. THE TERMS ACCORDING TO THE ÆGYPTIANS 500 words
  26. THE TERMS ACCORDING TO PTOLEMY 500 words
  27. THE PLACES AND DEGREES OF EVERY PLANET 300 words
  28. CHAPTER XXVI 300 words
  29. APPLICATION, SEPARATION, AND OTHER FACULTIES 800 words
  30. GENERAL DIVISION OF THE SUBJECT 500 words
  31. PECULIARITIES OBSERVABLE THROUGHOUT EVERY ENTIRE CLIMATE 500 words
  32. CHAPTER III 2,800 words
  33. CHAPTER IV 200 words
  34. MODE OF PARTICULAR PREDICTION IN ECLIPSES 200 words
  35. CHAPTER VI 200 words
  36. THE TIME AND PERIOD OF THE EVENT 400 words
  37. CHAPTER VIII 1,100 words
  38. THE QUALITY AND NATURE OF THE EFFECT 1,800 words
  39. COLOURS IN ECLIPSES; COMETS, AND SIMILAR PHENOMENA 500 words
  40. THE NEW MOON OF THE YEAR 400 words
  41. CHAPTER XII 400 words
  42. CHAPTER XIII 1,000 words
  43. THE SIGNIFICATION OF METEORS 700 words
  44. PROEM 500 words
  45. CHAPTER II 600 words
  46. THE DEGREE ASCENDING 400 words
  47. DISTRIBUTION OF THE DOCTRINE OF NATIVITIES 900 words
  48. THE PARENTS 1,700 words
  49. BROTHERS AND SISTERS 600 words
  50. MALE OR FEMALE 300 words
  51. TWINS 500 words
  52. MONSTROUS OR DEFECTIVE BIRTHS 300 words
  53. CHILDREN NOT REARED 900 words
  54. THE DURATION OF LIFE 200 words
  55. THE PROROGATORY PLACES 300 words
  56. CHAPTER XIII 1,100 words
  57. NUMBER OF THE MODES OF PROROGATION 900 words
  58. EXEMPLIFICATION 1,000 words
  59. THE FORM AND TEMPERAMENT OF THE BODY 500 words
  60. THE HURTS, INJURIES, AND DISEASES OF THE BODY 1,500 words
  61. THE QUALITY OF THE MIND 2,100 words
  62. THE DISEASES OF THE MIND 1,100 words
  63. PROEM 100 words
  64. THE FORTUNE OF WEALTH 400 words
  65. THE FORTUNE OF RANK 300 words
  66. THE QUALITY OF EMPLOYMENT 1,400 words
  67. MARRIAGE 1,600 words
  68. CHILDREN 700 words
  69. FRIENDS AND ENEMIES 900 words
  70. TRAVELLING 600 words
  71. THE KIND OF DEATH 1,400 words
  72. THE PERIODICAL DIVISIONS OF TIME 1,900 words
  73. ALMAGEST; BOOK VIII, CHAP. IV 1,600 words
  74. ALMAGEST; BOOK II. EXTRACT FROM CHAP. IX 1,000 words
  75. NO. III. 3,100 words
  76. THE ZODIACAL PLANISPHERE 1,500 words

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