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A Scheme of Heaven
- Astrology and the Birth of Science
Engelsk Paperback
A Scheme of Heaven
- Astrology and the Birth of Science
Engelsk Paperback

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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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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
336
ISBN-13:
9781781259641
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
178125964X
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
7 jan 2021
Længde:
27mm
Bredde:
199mm
Højde:
129mm
Forlag:
Profile Books Ltd
Oplagsdato:
7 jan 2021
Forfatter(e):
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