Boudet, Jean-Patrice (Author)
Micrologus: Natura, Scienze e Società Medievali
Volume: 21
Pages: 193--218
Publication date: 2013
Language: French
Edition Details: Article in a special issue, “Mittelalterliche Legenden von Philosophen und Gelehrten / The Medieval Legends of Philosophers and Scholars”
While in the Arab world, the confusion between the scholar Claudius Ptolemy and an Hellenistic king was clearly denounced at least since the tenth century as a rough chronological error, this identification, although obsoleted by the translation of the Almagest by Gerard of Cremona ca. 1175, remained in the medieval West a major apologetics argument for proponents of astrology. Some of the dicta contained in the prologue of the Almagest were a source of thinking for medieval scholars but they had a limited success compared to a maxim attributed to Ptolemy and used ad nauseum from the middle of the thirteenth century: Vir sapiens dominabitur astris, The wise man will dominate the stars. This paper is a `mise au point' on what we know about the history of this aphorism, inspired by the verba 5 and 8 of the Centiloquium, and tries to understand its signification among the intellectuals of the last centuries of the Middle Ages.
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