{"product_id":"scheme-of-heaven","title":"Scheme of Heaven","description":"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.\n\nA 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.","brand":"Profile Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54251533042008,"sku":"9781781259641","price":18.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781781259641.jpg?v=1778486475","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/scheme-of-heaven","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}