History Of Trigonometry Flashcards
1
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Sine (abb.)
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Sin
2
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_ the Elder - called sine ardha-jya
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Aryabhata
3
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Chord
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jya
4
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jiba (abb.)
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jb
5
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Meaningless Arabic Word
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Jiba
6
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bosom (latin)
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jaib
7
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One of the distinguished translators of Greek texts into Latin.
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Gerard of Cremona
8
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“to touch” (latin)
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tangere
9
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“to cut” (latin)
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secare
10
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Coined the term tangens and secans
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Dane Thomas Fincke
11
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Suggested the names cosinus and cotangens
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Edmund Gunter
12
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First to say that the earth moves around the sun
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Aristarchus of Samos
13
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Father of trigonometry
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Hipparchus of Nicea and Rhodes
14
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Introduced to Greek science the Babylonian method of dividing the circle into 360°
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Hipparchus of Nicea and Rhodes
15
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First person to think of using similar triangles to calculate distances and heights that might be difficult to measure directly.
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Thales of Miletus
