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According to Wikipedia, Glen Robert Van Brummelen is a Canadian historian of mathematics specializing in historical applications of mathematics to astronomy. He is president of the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics, and was a co-editor of Mathematics and the Historian's Craft: The Kenneth O. May Lectures .

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Glen Van Brummelen's Published Works

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Heavenly Mathematics: The Forgotten Art of Spherical Trigonometry (2012) (93)
Book Review: The Mathematics of the Heavens and the Earth: The Early History of Trigonometry (2015) (35)
From Alexandria, through Baghdad: Surveys and studies in the Ancient Greek and medieval Islamic mathematical sciences in honor of J.L. Berggren (2014) (13)
Mathematics and the Historian’s Craft (2005) (12)
Lunar and Planetary Interpolation Tables in Ptolemy's Almagest: (1994) (10)
The Non-Attacking Queens Game (2006) (7)
Non-standard media and other resources (2002) (7)
Mathematical Methods in the Tables of Planetary Motion in Kushyar ibn Labban's Jami c Zij (1998) (7)
The mathematics of the heavens and the earth (2009) (7)
Jamshid al-Kashi: Calculating Genius. (1998) (4)
Mathematics and the historian's craft : the Kenneth O. May lectures (2005) (4)
Determining the Interdependence of Historical Astronomical Tables (1997) (4)
Abū Sahl al-Kūhī's "On Drawing Two Lines from a Point at a Known Angle" (2001) (3)
Taking latitude with ptolemy: Jamshid al-Kashi's novel geometric model of the motions of the inferior planets (2006) (3)
The end of an error: Bianchini, Regiomontanus, and the tabulation of stellar coordinates (2018) (3)
Taking Latitude with Ptolemy: al- Novel Geometric Model of the Motions of the Inferior Planets (2006) (3)
Filling in the short blanks: musings on bringing the historiography of mathematics to the classroom (2010) (3)
Computer animations of Ptolemy's models of the motions of the sun, moon and planets (1998) (2)
Ibn al-Samḥ: Abū al-Qāsim Aṣbagh Ibn Muḥammad Ibn al-Samḥ al-Gharnāṭī (2014) (2)
Al-Kūhī's revision of Book I of Euclid's Elements (2005) (2)
The Doctrine of Triangles: A History of Modern Trigonometry (2021) (2)
Al‐Samaw'al versus al‐Kūh? on the Depression of the Horizon (2003) (2)
Abü Sahl Al-KüHĪ on the Distance to the Shooting Stars (2001) (2)
Hippocrates of Chios (2012) (1)
Seeking the Divine on Earth: The Direction of Prayer in Islam (2013) (1)
The Mathematics of the Heavens and the Earth (2021) (1)
Ibn Bājja: Abū Bakr Muḥammad ibn Yaḥyā ibn al-Ṣā’igh al-Tujībī al-Andalusī al-Saraqusṭī (2014) (1)
The Astronomical System in Mūsā ibn Nawbakht's Astrological Treatise, the Kitāb al-Kāmil (1999) (1)
Aspects of the Astrolabe: ‘Architectonica Ratio’ in Tenth- and Eleventh-century Europe (2010) (1)
The Travels of Astronomical Tables within Medieval Islam: A Summary (2014) (1)
On Both Sides of the Strait of Gibraltar: Studies in the History of Medieval Astronomy in the Iberian Peninsula and the Maghrib, written by Julio Samsó (2022) (1)
1. Heavenly Mathematics (2012) (1)
Ibn al-Kammād: Abū Ja ҁ far Aḥmad Ibn Yūsuf Ibn al-Kammād (2014) (1)
The end of an error: Bianchini, Regiomontanus, and the tabulation of stellar coordinates (2018) (1)
Seeking the Divine on Earth: The Direction of Prayer in Islam (2013) (1)
A Survey of Research in the Mathematical Sciences in Medieval Islam from 1996 to 2011 (2014) (1)
4. The Medieval Approach (2012) (1)
The burdens of proof (2016) (1)
Before the end of an error: Giovanni Bianchini’s original flawed treatise on the conversion of stellar coordinates (2020) (1)
Chasing Shadows:Mathematics, Astronomy, and the Early History of Eclipse Reckoning by Clemency Montelle (2013) (0)
5. The Modern Approach: Right- Angled Triangles (2012) (0)
6. The Modern Approach: Oblique Triangles (2012) (0)
Computer Animations of Ptolemy's Models of the Motions of the Sun, Moon and Planets (1998) (0)
Review †The Melon-Shaped Astrolabe in Arabic Astronomy, E.S. Kennedy, P. Kunitzsch, R.P. Lorch (Eds.), Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart (1999) (2005) (0)
Abstracts (2004) (0)
Planar and Spherical Trigonometry (2020) (0)
The Babylonian Theory of the Planets by Noel M. Swerdlow (1999) (0)
Appendix A. Ptolemy’s Determination of the Sun’s Position (2012) (0)
A survey of the mathematical tables in Ptolemy's Almagest. (1994) (0)
Ibn Labbān, Kūshyār: Kiyā Abū al-Ḥasan Kūshyār ibn Labbān Bāshahrī al-Jīlī (Gīlānī) (2014) (0)
7. Areas, Angles, and Polyhedra (2012) (0)
Abü Sahl alKühT's "On (he Ratio of the Segments of a Single Line tbar Falls on Three Lines" (2000) (0)
The Doctrine of Triangles (2021) (0)
Appendix B. Textbooks (2012) (0)
2. Sines, cosines, and their relatives (2020) (0)
Trigonometry: A Very Short Introduction (2020) (0)
Jacqueline Feke Ptolemy’s philosophy: mathematics as a way of life (2019) (0)
Lunar and Planetary Interpolation Tables in Ptolemy's Almagest (1994) (0)
Maurolico, Rheticus, and the Birth of the Secant Function (2021) (0)
8. Stereographic Projection (2012) (0)
3. Building a sine table with your bare hands (2020) (0)
Book Review: Bianchini's Tabulae Astronomiae: The Astronomical Tables of Giovanni Bianchini (2010) (0)
Ancient Observations (2021) (0)
1. Why? (2020) (0)
The burdens of proof (2016) (0)
6. and beyond, to complex things (2020) (0)
Before the end of an error: Giovanni Bianchini’s original flawed treatise on the conversion of stellar coordinates (2020) (0)
Appendix C. Further Reading (2012) (0)
Al-Samaw?al?s Curious Approach to Trigonometry (2012) (0)
Chabás, José, and Bernard R. Goldstein. Essays on Medieval Computational Astronomy (1969) (0)
Trigonometry for the heavens (2017) (0)
9. Navigating by the Stars (2012) (0)
Daniel W. Graham.Science before Socrates: Parmenides, Anaxagoras, and the New Astronomy. xiii + 304 pp., illus., apps., bibl., index. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. $49.95 (cloth). (2015) (0)
Ibn al-Majdī: Shihāb al-Dīn Abū al- ҁ Abbās Aḥmad Ibn Rajab Ibn Ṭaybughā al-Majdī al-Shāfi ҁ ī (2014) (0)
3. The Ancient Approach (2012) (0)
2. Exploring the Sphere (2012) (0)
Recent Developments on Introducing a Historical Dimension in Mathematics Education: In Search of Vanishing Subjects: The Astronomical Origins of Trigonometry (2011) (0)
Peggy Aldrich Kidwell;, Amy Ackerberg‐Hastings;, David Lindsay Roberts.Tools of American Mathematics Teaching, 1800–2000.(Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Mathematics.)xviii + 418 pp., index. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution; Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2008. $70 (clot (2010) (0)
Mathematical Time Capsules: Clear Sailing with Trigonometry (2011) (0)
José Chabás;, Bernard R. Goldstein.A Survey of European Astronomical Tables in the Late Middle Ages. (Time, Astronomy, and Calendars: Texts and Studies, 2.) xix + 250 pp., tables, bibl., index. Leiden: Brill, 2012. $149 (cloth). (2013) (0)

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