Alexander Boxer. First U.K. edition, first printing. Both dust jacket and hardcover are in Fine condition. An unclipped jacket designed by Samantha Johnson. London: Profile Books, 2020. No writing or markings in this unread book, 319 pp. With colored photographs.
"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."
Alexander Boxer is a data scientist with a PhD in physics and degrees in the history of science and classics. His research has appeared in Nature Physics and he was Atlas Obscura’s original Washington, DC, “field agent.”
