Pitiscus

Bartholomeo Pitiscus

Born: 24 Aug 1561 in Grünberg, Silesia (now Zielona, Poland)
Died: 2 July 1613 in Heidleberg, Germany

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The word 'trigonometry' is due to Pitiscus in the title of a book Trigonometria published in Heidelberg in 1595. It consists of 5 books on plane and spherical trigonometry. It was translated into English in 1614 and into French in 1619.

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References:

  1. Dictionary of Scientific Biography
  2. R C Archibald, Bartholomäus Pitiscus (1561-1613), Mathematical Tables and Other Aids to Computation 3 (1949), 390-397. 
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