A theologist by trade and a strong influence in the Calvinist government of his time, Bartholomeo Pitiscus also essentially coined the term "trigonometry." The term comes from the title of his book Trigonometria, which consists of three parts,...

1561-1613 German Mathematician Bartholomeo Pitiscus is known primarily for his coining of the term "trigonometry," which appeared in the title of his Trigonometria: sive de solutione triangulorum tractatus brevis et perspicuus (1595). The...

Bartholomaeus (Barthélemy, Bartholomeo) Pitiscus (August 24, 1561 – July 2, 1613) was a German trigonometrist, astronomer, and theologian. Pitiscus was born to poor parents in Grünberg (Zielona Góra) in Silesia and studied theology at Zerbst...

M. C. Seymour et al., (Aldershot and Brookfield: Variorum, 199Z). vii + 163 pp. ISBN 0-86078-326-x. 45.00. [pounds] Following on from the critical edition of John Trevisa's English translation of the De proprietatibus rerum by the friar minor Bartholomaeus Anglicus, one of...