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The result was: promoted by Crisco 1492 (talk) 08:45, 3 September 2011 (UTC)

Tetrabiblos

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... that Ptolemy's Tetrabiblos, a 2nd century astrology book, is still considered a basic text in Western astrology?

Created/expanded by Ihcoyc (talk). Self nom at 16:03, 1 September 2011 (UTC)

Great article, I think it's unquestionably front page material once we clear up a few minor things:
- The closest thing I can find in the article to reference the hook is the last sentence of the lead paragraph, but it needs an inline citation.
- There's a lot of statements in the Influence section following halfway through the second paragraph that are uncited.
- You might want to mention (or link to) whatever he means by The Ambient in the summary of Book I. Gamaliel (talk) 19:40, 2 September 2011 (UTC)

I have:
- Added references (cut and pasted from later, mostly) to the lead paragraph;
- Added several references to the Influence section;
- Found a definition of "the Ambient", added it in a note, with a reference. I was a bit unsure of that myself. - Smerdis of Tlön - killing the human spirit since 2003! 20:38, 2 September 2011 (UTC)

Since you've responded to all of the above issues (quite quickly and quite well), this is ready for the front page. Nice work. Gamaliel (talk) 00:58, 3 September 2011 (UTC)