The Secrets of the Vaulted Sky: Astrology and the Art of Prediction

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2003 - 305 páginas
David Berlinski explains the power of humanity's oldest predictive system in this stunning and original new book. Astrology began at the dawn of time and over the centuries became a complex system with gifted seers often achieving results of eerie accuracy. For most of recorded history, astrologers have been found at the elbows of the rich and the powerful. However, Newton's system of the world put an end to one aspect of the astrological tradition. As a result, a method once widely used has become widely discredited, especially by scientific critics with little knowledge of astrology itself.
With a genius for storytelling and penetrating analysis, Berlinski explains how astrology works and how astrological ideas, although disguised, have reappeared in modern scientific theories.
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INTRODUCTION
1
CHAPTER
7
CHAPTER
24
CHAPTER THREE
41
CHAPTER FOUR
60
CHAPTER FIVE
79
CHAPTER
97
VIRGO P THE SWORD OF SKEPTICISM
115
24
185
CHAPTER ELEVEN
225
CHAPTER TWELVE
246
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
267
41
273
INDEX
287
15
288
Página de créditos

CHAPTER EIGHT
144

Términos y frases comunes

Sobre el autor (2003)

David Berlinski is the author of three novels and four works of nonfiction, including the bestselling A Tour of the Calculus. Berlinski received his Ph.D. from Princeton University and is a regular contributor to Commentary and Forbes ASAP. He lives in Paris.

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