mighty tome...a superb piece of work, brimming with scholarly but ease-to-read gems.
Graham Farmelo, THES
The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science has great breadth, it contains numerous entries that are a pleasure to read, and its index makes it easy to use
John North, Times Literary Supplement
Review from other book by this ... Read moreauthor Heilbron combines history and science and presents a cross-cultural examination of topics in a lavishly illustrated book
Review of 'Geometry Civilized', in Zentralblatt fur Mathematik
This wonderful book is a combination of mathematics, its history, and the history of civilisation and culture (architecture, painting, measuring, astronomy, etc) . . . contains some fascinating historical description . . . A lot of effort is spent on increasing our understanding of geometry. the author carefully explains solutions of some geometrical methods and proofs. There are diagrams on nearly every page, illustrations from older books, photographs and eight colour plates.
Review of 'Geometry Civilized', in EMS
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