Description:
This is the first edition of Moerbeke's Latin translation of Ptolemy's celebrated astrological handbook, known under the title Tetrabiblos or Quadripartitum (opus). Ptolemy's treatise (composed after 141 AD) offers a systematic overview of astrological science and had, together with his Almagest, an enormous influence up until the 17th century.
Brief description: Gudrun Vuillemin-Diem is the editor of Moerbeke's translations of the Metaphysics and Meteorology in the series of the Aristoteles latinus.