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It is hard to tell from the preview, what sort of book is this.
(I mean whether it is a scholarly book, or a book for young children,
or for the "wide audience").

Search in the Mathematical Review database shows that the author
is a specialist in history of mathematics, especially in Arab mathematics.
His other recent book

Van Brummelen, Glen. The mathematics of the heavens and the earth. The
early history of trigonometry. Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ,
2009. xx+329 pp.

has a favorable review, as a scholarly book. But the new book has
not been reviewed yet.

So I will probably buy it...
(As I am one of the few remaining mathematicians who still does research
in this area of mathematics:-)

Alex.


> I don't think I have seen this book mentioned on NavList yet. I just
> got a Princeton University Press notice about it and intend to order a
> copy.
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> It's available for CDN$23.16 from amazon.ca:
> http://www.amazon.ca/Heavenly-Mathematics-Forgotten-Spherical-Trigonometry/dp/0691148929
> and US$24.46 from amazon.com:
> http://www.amazon.com/Heavenly-Mathematics-Forgotten-Spherical-Trigonometry/dp/0691148929/
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> You can see some pages of the book on the U.S. site.
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