Napier, Torporley, Menelaus, and Ptolemy: Delambre and De Morgan’s Observations on Seventeenth-Century Restructuring of Spherical Trigonometry

DOI10.1007/978-3-319-64551-3_10zbMath1390.01009OpenAlexW2779379101MaRDI QIDQ4609488

Joel S. Silverberg

Publication date: 3 April 2018

Published in: Proceedings of the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics/La Société Canadienne d’Histoire et de Philosophie des Mathématiques (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64551-3_10

zbMATH Keywords

spherical trigonometry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) History of mathematics in the 17th century (01A45) History of geometry (51-03)

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