Trigonometry Improv'd, and Projection of the Sphere, Made Easy
Author: Henry Wilson
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Published: 1720
Total Pages: 214
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Author: Henry Wilson
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Published: 1720
Total Pages: 214
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Glen Van Brummelen
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2017-04-04
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 0691175993
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Spherical trigonometry was at the heart of astronomy and ocean-going navigation for two millennia. The discipline was a mainstay of mathematics education for centuries, and it was a standard subject in high schools until the 1950s. Today, however, it is rarely taught. Heavenly Mathematics traces the rich history of this forgotten art, revealing how the cultures of classical Greece, medieval Islam, and the modern West used spherical trigonometry to chart the heavens and the Earth."--Jacket.
Author: Henry Wilson
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Published: 1731
Total Pages: 398
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: William TAYLOR (the Blind Boy of Ightham.)
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Published: 1721
Total Pages: 22
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Henry Wilson
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Published: 1726
Total Pages: 388
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Glen Van Brummelen
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2021-06-08
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 0691219877
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn interdisciplinary history of trigonometry from the mid-sixteenth century to the early twentieth The Doctrine of Triangles offers an interdisciplinary history of trigonometry that spans four centuries, starting in 1550 and concluding in the 1900s. Glen Van Brummelen tells the story of trigonometry as it evolved from an instrument for understanding the heavens to a practical tool, used in fields such as surveying and navigation. In Europe, China, and America, trigonometry aided and was itself transformed by concurrent mathematical revolutions, as well as the rise of science and technology. Following its uses in mid-sixteenth-century Europe as the "foot of the ladder to the stars" and the mathematical helpmate of astronomy, trigonometry became a ubiquitous tool for modeling various phenomena, including animal populations and sound waves. In the late sixteenth century, trigonometry increasingly entered the physical world through the practical disciplines, and its societal reach expanded with the invention of logarithms. Calculus shifted mathematical reasoning from geometric to algebraic patterns of thought, and trigonometry’s participation in this new mathematical analysis grew, encouraging such innovations as complex numbers and non-Euclidean geometry. Meanwhile in China, trigonometry was evolving rapidly too, sometimes merging with indigenous forms of knowledge, and with Western discoveries. In the nineteenth century, trigonometry became even more integral to science and industry as a fundamental part of the science and engineering toolbox, and a staple subject in high school classrooms. A masterful combination of scholarly rigor and compelling narrative, The Doctrine of Triangles brings trigonometry’s rich historical past full circle into the modern era.
Author: Daniel Defoe
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2022-04-22
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 1684483328
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSerious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe with his Vision of the Angelick World, first published in 1720 and considered a sequel to The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, is a collection of essays written in the voice of the Crusoe character. Expressing Defoe’s thoughts about many moral questions of the day, the narrator takes up isolation, poverty, religious liberty, and epistemology. Defoe also used this volume to revive his interest in poetry, not the satiric poetry of the early eighteenth century, but the more inspirational verse that appeared in some of his later works. Serious Reflections also includes an imaginative flight in which Crusoe wanders among the planets, a return to the moon voyage impulse of Defoe’s 1705 work The Consolidator. Illuminating the ideas and philosophy of this most influential of English novelists, it is invaluable for any student of the period.
Author: Royal Astronomical Society
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Published: 1886
Total Pages: 420
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Published: 1723
Total Pages: 438
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Published: 1728
Total Pages: 412
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