01770nam a22002531i 4500 20210712092702.0 210712s2020 enkao||g ||| ||1 0 eng d 9781781259634 RM 149.90 hardback PPAK eng PPAK rda 23 133.509 133.509 BOX G Boxer, Alexander, author. A SCHEME OF HEAVEN : ASTROLOGY and THE BIRTH of SCIENCE / ALEXANDER BOXER London : Profile Books , 2020 x, 319 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour) ; 24 cm. rdacontent text rdamedia unmediated rdacarrier volume Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. Astrology History. Science and astrology History. ddc B 184340 184340 0 0 PPAK G 2021-07-16 133.509 BOX A01697357 2021-07-16 00:00:00 B 0 0 SP G 2021-07-16 4 1 133.509 BOX A01697358 2023-05-31 00:00:00 2023-05-06 B