A quotation by Ptolemy

When I trace at my pleasure the windings to and fro of the heavenly bodies, I no longer touch the earth with my feet: I stand in the presence of Zeus himself and take my fill of ambrosia, food of the gods.
Quoted in C B Boyer, A History of Mathematics (New York 1968)

JOC/EFR February 2006

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