OHHHHHH, that is such good news!!! I have read Alphabet v. Goddess a couple of times exactly because he helps me see connections that I should have seen on my own... but didn't: because I'm too much of an insider. He's one of those people who confirms my sense that it often takes someone from outside of the discipline to really see what is going on. Super! I've got that on my wish list and will bump it right up to the top.
I keep meaning to post something here are about a book I read a couple weeks ago called Lost Discoveries - it's about math, astronomy, physics, etc. in the non-European cultures. It was full of all kinds of amazing stuff, written by a popularizing writer, Dick Teresi, who does his best to take heavy-duty scholarly stuff and translate it into layman's terms. I'd tried to read some stuff on the history of math in Islam and in India (there are some great scholars in the History of Science dept. at OU who work on such stuff) and had been really stymied by not having the context needed to understand the scholarly work directly, but Teresi manages to sort things out so that I can finally appreciate some of the crucial differences between the Greek math and science traditions as compared to Islam, India, and also the Americas and Pacific Islanders (his stuff about navigation as practiced by Pacific Islanders was so cool!!!)
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