A Scheme of Heaven : Astrology and the Birth of Science Paperback / softback
by Alexander Boxer
Paperback / softback
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Despite a resurgence in popularity, horoscopes are generally considered to be pseudoscience today - but they were once a cutting-edge scientific tool.
In this ingenious work of history, data scientist Alexander Boxer examines a treasure trove of esoteric classical sources to expose the deep imaginative framework by which - for millennia - we made sense of our fates.
Astrology, he argues, was the ancient world's most ambitious applied mathematics problem, a grand data-analysis enterprise sustained by some of history's most brilliant minds, from Ptolemy to al-Kindi to Kepler. A Scheme of Heaven explores the wonderful subtleties of astrological ideas.
Telling the stories of their inventors and most influential exponents, Boxer puts them through their paces using modern data sets - finding that the methods of today's scientists are often uncomfortably close to those of astrology's ancient sages.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:336 pages, 16 pages full colour plates
- Publisher:Profile Books Ltd
- Publication Date:07/01/2021
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- ISBN:9781781259641
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:336 pages, 16 pages full colour plates
- Publisher:Profile Books Ltd
- Publication Date:07/01/2021
- Category:
- ISBN:9781781259641