At the end of the chapter Ptolemy clarifies that these are not his proposals, but are drawn from historical sources, being "the observations of the effects of the stars themselves as made by our predecessors".
在本章的最後托勒密澄清這些都不是他的意見，而是從歷史來源上得出的，由於“星宿本身影響力的觀測資料是經由我們的前輩創造完成的（the observations of the effects of the stars themselves as made by our predecessors）”。