The Mathematics of the Heavens and the Earth : : The Early History of Trigonometry / / Glen Van Brummelen.
The Mathematics of the Heavens and the Earth is the first major history in English of the origins and early development of trigonometry. Glen Van Brummelen identifies the earliest known trigonometric precursors in ancient Egypt, Babylon, and Greece, and he examines the revolutionary discoveries of H...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021] ©2009 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (352 p.) :; 16 halftones. 109 line illus. 1 table. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- The Ancient Heavens
- 1 Precursors
- 2 Alexandrian Greece
- 3 India
- 4 Islam
- 5 The West to 1550
- Concluding Remarks
- Bibliography
- Index