...Hundred Aphorisms of Claudius Ptolemy*; otherwise called, the Fruit of his Four Books. I. JUDGMENT must be regulated by thyself, as well as by the science...scientific; since the understanding conceives only a certain general idea of some sensible event, and not its particular form. It is, therefore, necessary...

...version derives from the first proposition of the Centiloquium, in which Pseudo-Ptolemy had stated that it is not possible that particular forms of events should be declared by any person, however learned in the science of astrology, 'since the understanding So conceives only a general idea of some...

...being infallible. These words of the wise Ptolemy to his pupils should be well pondered : " Judgment must be regulated by thyself, as well as by the Science....scientific, since the understanding conceives only a certain general idea of some sensible event, and not its particular form. It is, therefore, necessary...