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Glen Van Brummelen covers all major contributions to the field, from early hints in Egypt, Babylon and early Greece, to its birth in the works of the Hellenistic mathematical astronomers, through its development towards a fully-fledged mathematical discipline in India and Islam, and its realisation in medieval and Renaissance Europe.Van Brummelen, Glen is the author of 'The Mathematics of the Heavens & the Earth: The Early History of Trigonometry', published 2009 under ISBN 9780691129730 and ISBN 0691129738.
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