# A Scheme of Heaven

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- Authors: [Alexander Boxer](https://www.bookquiver.com/alexander-boxer)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2020-01-09

## Description

Humans are pattern-matching creatures, and astrology is our grandest pattern-matching game. 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. Despite a resurgence in popularity, horoscopes are generally considered to be pseudoscience today, but they were once a cutting-edge scientific tool. Boxer explores their extraordinary subtleties and tells the stories of their inventors and most influential exponents. And he 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.

## Editions

### A Scheme of Heaven

- Publisher: profile_audio
- Medium: audio
- ISBN: 978-17-8283-695-7
- Published: 2020-01-09
- Language: en_GB