{"product_id":"a-scheme-of-heaven","title":"A Scheme of Heaven","description":"\u0026lt;p\u0026gt;\u0026lt;b\u0026gt;'A delightful and utterly fascinating work of intellectual history.' Joshua Foer author of \u0026lt;i\u0026gt;Moonwalking with Einstein\u0026lt;\/i\u0026gt;\u0026lt;\/b\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;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.\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;i\u0026gt;A Scheme of Heaven \u0026lt;\/i\u0026gt;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.\u0026lt;\/p\u0026gt;\u0026gt;","brand":"Oxfordbookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44786687639731,"sku":"9781781259634","price":1212.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0718\/4164\/4723\/files\/blk_imp_17477296509781781259634.jpg?v=1762806191","url":"https:\/\/oxfordbookstore.com\/products\/a-scheme-of-heaven","provider":"Oxfordbookstore ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}