A Scheme of Heaven: Astrology and the Birth of Science Alexander Boxer Profile Books Ltd 2021 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. Σελίδες: 336, Έτος Έκδοσης: 2021, Διαστάσεις: 1x1cm

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