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Lenart Sphere (for spherical geometry)...
From: Dale Lichtblau
Date: 2014 Sep 26, 06:14 -0700
From: Dale Lichtblau
Date: 2014 Sep 26, 06:14 -0700
My Lenart Sphere arrived a week or so ago. I first heard about it in a wonderful little book Heavenly Mathematics: The Forgotten Art of Spherical Trigonometry by Glen Van Brummelen. The sphere is a neat transparent "whiteboard" for drawing spherical triangles (etc.), like the navigation triangle. Very useful for visualizing geometry on a sphere.
Dale
