 | 1874 - 618 pàgines
...that the impregnation and growth of the seeds from which all bodies proceed, are framed and molded by the quality existing in the Ambient at the time of such impregnation and growth." Ptolemy nowhere in his work speaks of the stars as indicators apart from the idea of causation, but... | |
 | Frank Heynick - 2002 - 788 pàgines
...also that the impregnation and growth of the seeds from which all bodies proceed are formed and molded by the quality existing in the ambient at the time of such impregnation and growth." So it was that the stars and planets had a role in what Ptolemy called "medical mathematics," by which... | |
 | James J. Garber - 2011 - 225 pàgines
...also that the impregnation and growth of the seed from which all bodies proceed, are framed and molded by the quality existing in the Ambient at the time of such impregnation. I5* In brief, the course of our lives is etched in stone by the configuration of the heavens at the... | |
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... upon the mode of their visibility, their occultation and their declination. 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... 