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A Scheme of Heaven - Alexander Boxer

A Scheme of Heaven

Astrology and the Birth of Science

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
336 Seiten
2020 | Main
Profile Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78125-963-4 (ISBN)
CHF 43,60 inkl. MwSt
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How the search for our destiny in the stars taught humanity how to think about data.
'A delightful and utterly fascinating work of intellectual history.' Joshua Foer author of Moonwalking with Einstein

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.

Alexander Boxer has a doctorate in physics from MIT, a master's degree in the History of Science from Oxford and a bachelors in Classical Language from Yale. His technical research has appeared in journals such as Nature Physics. In his spare time, he is an active member of Atlas Obscura as a D.C.-based 'field agent'.

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 16 pages full colour plates
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 162 x 240 mm
Gewicht 682 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Natur / Technik Weltraum / Astronomie
Naturwissenschaften Physik / Astronomie Astronomie / Astrophysik
ISBN-10 1-78125-963-1 / 1781259631
ISBN-13 978-1-78125-963-4 / 9781781259634
Zustand Neuware
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