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A Scheme of Heaven: The History of Astrology and the Search for Our Destiny in Data
Maybe someday
25
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Readers
32/100Critics
17/100Scholars
Author:
Alexander Boxer
Publisher:
W. W. Norton & Company
Date:
January 14, 2020
A look at the surprising history and science of astrology, civilization's first system of algorithms, from Babylon to the present day.
What The Reviewers Say
... sprightly, if occasionally heavy-going.
Boxer is at his most dynamic when arguing for the relevance of astrology in an era of Big Data and machine learning.
... wide-ranging and full of peculiar nuggets of information.
How, [Hirshfeld] wonders, did long-ago astrologers 'parse and package quantitative information' to uncover 'hidden rhythms of the cosmos'? His answer winds through 4,000 years of human endeavor and provides potent testimony to the cognitive prowess of the ancients.
