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A Scheme of heaven : astrology and the birth of science / Alexander Boxer. - London : Profile Books, 2021. - X, [4], 319 stron : ilustracje ; 20 cm.
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Boxer Alexander. Autor
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Książki Publikacje popularnonaukowe
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Astrologia Horoskopy Nauka
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Opracowanie
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Historia
Książka w języku angielskim. 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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