Astrology and birth of science. Scheme of heaven. Boxer A.

people are creatures that are naturally inclined in everything to look for patterns, repeated patterns. And astrology is the greatest game in the universe in the search and comparison of patterns. In this fresh and vivid work, a data analysis specialist Alexander Boxer explores the history of astrology, as well as its natural-scientific and mathematical foundations. Astrology, he claims, was the most ambitious task of applied mathematics of the ancient world, a grandiose data analysis enterprise, which many brilliant minds have contributed from Ptolemy to al-Kindi and Kepler. Today, horoscopes are considered pseudoscience, but once they were the most advanced scientific tool of our civilization. A. The boxer checks their reliability, using modern statistical methods, and clearly demonstrates that the work of modern analytics dates in essence is surprisingly similar to the work of astrologers of the oldest times. Critical, scientifically meticulous and excitingly written, this book places astrology in a new context, considering it as a giant technological project, coverage of continents and centuries and in many ways anticipating our today's world, controlled by great data.