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[ursula]

Age of Sail alert: I'm cataloguing a book for work called Beyond the learned academy—the practice of mathematics, 1600–1850, and it has multiple chapters about what sorts of mathematics members of the navy were supposed to know to pass their exams.

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[yhlee]

:happy gasp: I saw it going for $20 in hardcover, SNURCH.

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[ursula]

Yeah, it's startlingly affordable for an academic history book! And there's some stuff about math for army officers, too.

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[yhlee]

I was wildly and pleasantly surprised given that I have been in the hellscape of $100+ academic musicology and film studies books for my current program lolsob. (No, I did not buy them all. In some cases I was able to get library access. But still.)