Claude Ptolémée: Citations en anglais
                                        
                                        In some of the manuscripts, the books begins with this epigram (Owen Gingerich, The Eye of Heaven: Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler, American Institute of Physics, 1993, p. 55). 
Almagest
                                    
“We consider it a good principle to explain the phenomena by the simplest hypothesis possible.”
                                        
                                        Book III, sec 1 (trans. Gerald J. Toomer) 
Almagest
                                    
“Everything that is hard to attain is easily assailed by the generality of men.”
                                        
                                        Book I, sec. 1 
Tetrabiblos
                                    
Carl B. Boyer, in The Rainbow: From Myth to Mathematics (1959)
“The length of life takes the leading place among inquiries about events following birth.”
                                        
                                        Book III, sec. 10 
Tetrabiblos
                                    
James Gow, A Short History of Greek Mathematics https://books.google.com/books?id=9d8DAAAAMAAJ (1884) p.308.
 
 
        
     
        
     
        
     
        
     
        
     
        
     
        
     
        
     
        
    