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A Scheme of Heaven - Astrology and the Birth of Science (Paperback, Main)
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A Scheme of Heaven - Astrology and the Birth of Science (Paperback, Main)
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Loot Price R354
Discovery Miles 3 540
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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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