[HPforGrownups] re: Famous Wizards that even Muggle history knows about

[Ms Lizard Gizzard]

No: HPFGUIDX 40919

> "Ptolemy was a Greek astronomer who lived 
> between 85-165 A.D. He put together his own 
> ideas with those of Aristotle and Hipparchus 
> and formed the geocentric theory." 

That's his contribution to science, but what about
magic?  I found this in Carl Sagan's Cosmos:

"Modern popular astrology runs directly back to
...Ptolemy.  All that arcane business about planets
ascendant in this or that sorlar or lunar "house" or
the "Age of Aquarius" comes from Ptolemy, who codified
the Babylonian astrological tradition.  [snip]
Ptolemy believed that behavior patterns by the planets
and the stars but also that stature, complexion,
national character and even congenital physical
ablormalities were determined by the stars."

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