One 17th-century critic was to write of its subject: "no superstitious art is more fitted to forward the aims of the devil than the astrology of Ptolemy".
一則由十七世紀的評論家撰寫著關於它的標題：“反对迷信的術數與其合适的說是朝向惡魔的目標毋寧說是托勒密的占星學（no superstitious art is more fitted to forward the aims of the devil than the astrology of Ptolemy）”。