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The LRB Podcast

Ancient Greek Horoscopy

May 18, 2021
45:39

Claire Hall talks to Thomas Jones about Ancient Greek horoscopy, the Ptolemaic model, the mysteries of the Antikythera mechanism, and why astrology was the first data science.

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