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The Mythical Pterms
Ptotle’s Mythical Pterms You do understand that Ptotle’s Pterms were never in the original Tetrabiblos, right? We know that Ptotle’s Pterms were inserted into the text during the Byzantine Era, specifically in Codex Laurentianus 28,34. A Florentine work known as Syntagma Laurentianum that contains a lot of Ptotle’s Tetrabiblos. Stephan Heilen notes the fact that […]
The Confused Geographer
Ptotle the Confused Geographer Let’s talk about Ptotle’s other fabrications. The Tetrabiblos (also known as the Quadrapartite) was probably called Apotelesmatika, just like the work penned by Hesphaistio of Thebes (he quotes Ptotle but sometimes questions Ptotle) and the Geographike Hyphegesis (Geographical Guidance). For the practicing astrologer, Ptotle’s Geographike is of no value. Ptotle admits […]
Ptolemy’s Fabrications
Ptotle’s Astronomical Fabrications In addition to being an incompetent astronomer, Ptotle fabricated the majority of his data and fabricated data from other earlier astronomers. We’re grateful to R. R. Newton and others for pointing out Ptotle’s lies (all dates are BCE unless otherwise noted): Those are but a few fabrications Ptolemy conjured up. And here […]
An Incompetent Astronomer
Ptolemy the Incompetent Astronomer It is difficult to tell whose works Ptolemy plagiarized because nearly all of the works on astronomy prior to Ptolemy are now lost. Ptolemy does credit Hipparchus with providing certain parts of his theories on the Sun and Moon but denies that Hipparchus developed models for the planets, even though Hipparchus […]