The ''Canon Sinuum'' is the main part of
Bartholomaeus Pitiscus
Bartholomaeus Pitiscus (also ''Barthélemy'' or ''Bartholomeo''; August 24, 1561 – July 2, 1613) was a 16th-century German trigonometrist, astronomer and theologian who first coined the word ''trigonometry''.
Biography
Pitiscus was born to ...
' '' Thesaurus Mathematicus sive Canon Sinuum ad radium 1.00000.00000.00000'' published as a
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in 1613 (misprinted on two of the titles 1513, by omission of a
C in the
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MLCXIII) in
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It is a table of sines, originally computed by
Rheticus,
with the sines given every 10 seconds to 15 places, with first, second, and third differences.
This table spans 270 pages.
In addition, the ''Canon Sinuum'' gives the sines to 15 places for every second of the first and last degrees of the quadrant, as well as several other tables.
References
External links
* {{URL, http://www.e-rara.ch/zut/content/titleinfo/5306212, Pitiscus: ''Thesaurus Mathematicus'', 1613
1613 books
Trigonometry