Boxer, Alexander, <br/><br/>
A SCHEME OF HEAVEN :  ASTROLOGY and THE BIRTH of SCIENCE / 
ALEXANDER BOXER 
 - x, 319 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :   illustrations (some colour) ;   24 cm. 
<br/><br/> Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781781259634  RM 149.90 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Astrology --History.<br/>Science and astrology--History.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>133.509