A Station Favorable to the Pursuits of Science: Primary Materials in the History of Mathematics at the United States Military Academyby Joe Albree; David C. Arney; V. Frederick Rickey

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A Station Favorable to the Pursuits of Science: Primary Materials in the History of Mathematics at the United States Military Academy: By Joe Albree, David C. Arney, and V. Frederick Rickey. Providence, RI (American Mathematical Society) and London (London Mathematical Society). History of Mathematics, Vol. 18. 2000. 272 pp. $59

✍ C.Edward Sandifer 📂 Article 📅 2003 🏛 Elsevier Science 🌐 English ⚖ 34 KB

the direction of Mecca, and mathematical geography in 17th-century Iran. The book ends with extensive appendixes, listing data on the two instruments and on numerous other instruments and geographical tables. King's book bears witness to the unexplored riches of the history of Islamic science. In ad