A Scheme Of Heaven

Author : Alexander Boxer
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 039363485X
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Scheme of Heaven: The History of Astrology and the Search for our Destiny in Data written by Alexander Boxer and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illuminating look at the surprising history and science of astrology, civilization’s first system of algorithms, from Babylon to the present day. Humans are pattern-matching creatures, and astrology is the universe’s grandest pattern-matching game. In this refreshing work of history and analysis, data scientist Alexander Boxer examines classical texts on astrology to expose its underlying scientific and mathematical framework. Astrology, he argues, was the ancient world’s most ambitious applied mathematics problem, a monumental data-analysis enterprise sustained by some of history’s most brilliant minds, from Ptolemy to al-Kindi to Kepler. Thousands of years ago, astrologers became the first to stumble upon the powerful storytelling possibilities inherent in numerical data. To correlate the configurations of the cosmos with our day-to-day lives, astrologers relied upon a “scheme of heaven,” or horoscope, showing the precise configuration of the planets at a particular instant in time as viewed from a particular place on Earth. Although recognized as pseudoscience today, horoscopes were once considered a cutting-edge scientific tool. Boxer teaches us how to read these esoteric charts—and appreciate the complex astronomical calculations needed to generate them—by diagramming how the heavens appeared at important moments in astrology’s history, from the assassination of Julius Caesar as viewed from Rome to the Apollo 11 lunar landing as seen from the surface of the Moon. He then puts these horoscopes to the test using modern data sets and statistical science, arguing that today’s data scientists do work similar to astrologers of yore. By looking back at the algorithms of ancient astrology, he suggests, we can better recognize the patterns that are timeless characteristics of our own pattern-matching tendencies. At once critical, rigorous, and far ranging, A Scheme of Heaven recontextualizes astrology as a vast, technological project—spanning continents and centuries—that foreshadowed our data-driven world today.

Author : Alexander Boxer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781781259641
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Scheme of Heaven written by Alexander Boxer and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-07 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.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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Publisher : Travelers' Tales
ISBN 13 : 1885211449
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sword of Heaven written by and published by Travelers' Tales. This book was released on 1999 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A memoir of Aaland's journey toward personal and world peace.

Author : Rb Kelly
Publisher : Newcon Press
ISBN 13 : 9781912950447
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Edge of Heaven written by Rb Kelly and published by Newcon Press. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2119: The bi-level city of Creo Basse towers over the wastelands of central France. Built as a permanent relocation centre for the dispossessed, Creo has become a hotbed of simmering resentment and unrest. The authorities keep tight control, not least because outlawed a-nauts (artificial humans) are known to hide among its citizenry. In the dark, honeycomb districts of the lower city, Boston Turrow is searching desperately for black-market meds for his epileptic sister when he encounters one of the many ways Creo can kill a person. His unlikely rescuer is Danae Grant, a woman recently made homeless when the bloc she lived in was condemned. Danae knows people, Boston knows where she can stay... The tinderbox that is Creo catches light when a deadly plague erupts among the populace. Is it really a terrorist weapon unleashed by the a-nauts as the authorities claim, or does that just hide a deeper, darker secret? Danae and Boston are determined to survive, if only to discover the truth; of course, that might be easier said than done... RB Kelly's stunning debut novel, Edge of Heaven, is the winner of the Irish Writers Centre Novel Fair Award. "...punchy and riveting as required, but also mindful that science fiction's first duty is to weave alternative realities in which readers can blissfully lose themselves." - The Irish Times "RB Kelly is a thrilling new talent in SFF. Her writing is lyrical, passionate, honest, her science-fictional worlds unique and deeply thought-through. All the great stories are love stories, and this is a love story like none you have read before." - Ian McDonald "This is noir thriller territory: in the rain-swept city there are alleyways and boulevards, abandoned warehouses and apartment blocks, petty crime and dangerous gangs... an impressive debut." - The Green Book

Author : Mitch Albom
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062294466
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Next Person You Meet in Heaven written by Mitch Albom and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this enchanting sequel to the #1 bestseller The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Mitch Albom tells the story of Eddie’s heavenly reunion with Annie—the little girl he saved on earth—in an unforgettable novel of how our lives and losses intersect. In Mitch Albom’s beloved novel, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, the world fell in love with Eddie, a grizzled war veteran-turned-amusement park mechanic who died saving the life of a young girl named Annie. Eddie’s journey to heaven taught him that every life matters. Now, in this magical sequel, Albom reveals Annie’s story. The accident that killed Eddie left an indelible mark on Annie. It took her left hand, which needed to be surgically reattached. Injured, scarred, and unable to remember why, Annie’s life is forever changed by a guilt-ravaged mother who whisks her away from the world she knew. Bullied by her peers and haunted by something she cannot recall, Annie struggles to find acceptance as she grows. When, as a young woman, she reconnects with Paulo, her childhood love, she believes she has finally found happiness. As the novel opens, Annie is marrying Paulo. But when her wedding night day ends in an unimaginable accident, Annie finds herself on her own heavenly journey—and an inevitable reunion with Eddie, one of the five people who will show her how her life mattered in ways she could not have fathomed. Poignant and beautiful, filled with unexpected twists, The Next Person You Meet in Heaven reminds us that not only does every life matter, but that every ending is also a beginning—we only need to open our eyes to see it.

Author : Marion Williamson
Publisher : Arcturus Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1398814539
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Libra written by Marion Williamson and published by Arcturus Publishing. This book was released on 2022-09-01 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do the stars reveal about you, your personality, your gifts and challenges? Bestselling, highly regarded astrologers, Marion Williamson and Pam Carruthers, explain what your Sun and Moon signs say about you, as well as who you get along with in relationships and at work. In this book you can find out which parts of the world resonate most with you for travel and what you should be doing to live at your highest potential. With insight into what your day of birth means for your personality as well as ideas to meditate on to bring further spiritual development, this is your one-stop guide to all things Libra. The astrology series of 12 books allows readers to deep dive into what their Sun sign, and birthchart, says about them. Including sections on personality insights, love compatibilities, best career and travel choices, moon signs, as well as analysis for exact dates of birth and the meanings of other planets in a birthchart, this is a far-ranging look at what the stars mean for us on Earth.

Author : Mari Garcia
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780646570617
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scala Coeli: The Ladder of Heaven written by Mari Garcia and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Benson Bobrick
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743268954
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fated Sky written by Benson Bobrick and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2006-11-14 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Fated Sky' looks at famous figures and important historical events that were influenced by astrology.

Author : Vicki Pettersson
Publisher : Alistern Press
ISBN 13 : 1940221188
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cheat the Grave written by Vicki Pettersson and published by Alistern Press. This book was released on 2023-10-17 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book 5 in the NYT & USA Today Bestselling “Signs of the Zodiac” series. Las Vegas socialite and otherworldly avenger Joanna Archer gave up everything when she sacrificed her extraordinary abilities and embraced mortality to rescue an innocent child … and a city teetering on destruction. Now her former allies have become avowed enemies–and those enemies have nothing to fear. Yet Joanna is still tied to a nightmare underworld by prophesy and heritage, and a bloodthirsty predator is hot on her trail—and determined to rip much more from Joanna than her fragile life. With good and evil blurring into confusing shades of gray—Joanna must do more than just survive. She must rally an unlikely army of foes, form new alliances to replace the old … and seek the destruction of everything she once believed in.

Author : Andrew Scott Cooper
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 0805098984
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Fall of Heaven written by Andrew Scott Cooper and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2016-08-02 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An immersive, gripping account of the rise and fall of Iran's glamorous Pahlavi dynasty, written with the cooperation of the late Shah's widow, Empress Farah, Iranian revolutionaries and US officials from the Carter administration In this remarkably human portrait of one of the twentieth century's most complicated personalities, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Andrew Scott Cooper traces the Shah's life from childhood through his ascension to the throne in 1941. He draws the turbulence of the post-war era during which the Shah survived assassination attempts and coup plots to build a modern, pro-Western state and launch Iran onto the world stage as one of the world's top five powers. Readers get the story of the Shah's political career alongside the story of his courtship and marriage to Farah Diba, who became a power in her own right, the beloved family they created, and an exclusive look at life inside the palace during the Iranian Revolution. Cooper's investigative account ultimately delivers the fall of the Pahlavi dynasty through the eyes of those who were there: leading Iranian revolutionaries; President Jimmy Carter and White House officials; US Ambassador William Sullivan and his staff in the American embassy in Tehran; American families caught up in the drama; even Empress Farah herself, and the rest of the Iranian Imperial family. Intimate and sweeping at once, The Fall of Heaven recreates in stunning detail the dramatic and final days of one of the world's most legendary ruling families, the unseating of which helped set the stage for the current state of the Middle East.