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    Spherical trigonometry is the branch of spherical geometry that deals with the metrical relationships between the sides and angles of spherical triangles...
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    tables of sine values, and used them to solve problems in trigonometry and spherical trigonometry. In the 2nd century AD, the Greco-Egyptian astronomer Ptolemy...
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    author on trigonometry was Bhaskara II in the 12th century. Bhaskara II developed spherical trigonometry, and discovered many trigonometric results. Bhaskara...
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    geodesy, spherical geometry and the metrical tools of spherical trigonometry are in many respects analogous to Euclidean plane geometry and trigonometry, but...
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    and allows the exact calculation (hisab) of the qibla using a spherical trigonometric formula that takes the coordinates of a location and of the Kaaba...
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    Isoazimuthal Loxodromic navigation Meridian arc Rhumb line Spherical geometry Spherical trigonometry Versor Admiralty Manual of Navigation, Volume 1, The Stationery...
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    development of trigonometry. He "innovated new trigonometric functions, created a table of cotangents, and made some formulas in spherical trigonometry." These...
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    Sphere (redirect from Spherical)
    postulate. In spherical trigonometry, angles are defined between great circles. Spherical trigonometry differs from ordinary trigonometry in many respects...
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    natural logarithms of trigonometric functions.: Ch. III  The book also has a discussion of theorems in spherical trigonometry, usually known as Napier's...
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    spherical trigonometry. This followed earlier work by Greek mathematicians such as Menelaus of Alexandria, who wrote a book on spherical trigonometry...
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    the angles and sides are analogous to those of spherical trigonometry; the length scale for both spherical geometry and hyperbolic geometry can for example...
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    followers on spherical geometry", Gaṇita Bhārati, 36: 53–108, arXiv:1409.4736 Todhunter, Isaac; Leathem, John Gaston (1901), Spherical Trigonometry (Revised ed...
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    and location on Earth. It relies on the mathematical methods of spherical trigonometry and the measurements of astrometry. This is the oldest branch of...
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    others. He developed trigonometry and constructed trigonometric tables, and he solved several problems of spherical trigonometry. With his solar and lunar...
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    Haversine formula (category Spherical trigonometry)
    of a more general formula in spherical trigonometry, the law of haversines, that relates the sides and angles of spherical triangles. The first table of...
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    In spherical trigonometry, the law of cosines (also called the cosine rule for sides) is a theorem relating the sides and angles of spherical triangles...
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    knowledge of trigonometry, including the sine table and relationships between different trigonometric functions. He also developed spherical trigonometry, along...
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    circles (all of which are closed) and the problems reduce to ones in spherical trigonometry. However, Newton (1687) showed that the effect of the rotation of...
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    astronomer who worked in Baghdad. He made important innovations in spherical trigonometry, and his work on arithmetic for businessmen contains the first instance...
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  • Solution of triangles (category Spherical trigonometry)
    Spherical trigonometry on Math World. Intro to Spherical Trig. Includes discussion of The Napier circle and Napier's rules Spherical Trigonometry —...
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    In trigonometry, trigonometric identities are equalities that involve trigonometric functions and are true for every value of the occurring variables for...
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    to trigonometry: Trigonometry – branch of mathematics that studies the relationships between the sides and the angles in triangles. Trigonometry defines...
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    Great circle (category Spherical trigonometry)
    a great circle is a geodesic of the sphere, so that great circles in spherical geometry are the natural analog of straight lines in Euclidean space....
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    on invariant theory of ternary forms (1889) and for the study of spherical trigonometry. He is also known for contributions to space geometry, hypercomplex...
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    this definition, the galactic poles and equator can be found from spherical trigonometry and can be precessed to other epochs; see the table. The IAU recommended...
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  • on the TV series The 100 Crickets of the subfamily Trigonidiinae Spherical trigonometry Non-euclidean geometry Celestial navigation This disambiguation...
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    part of the Aryabhatiya covers arithmetic, algebra, plane trigonometry, and spherical trigonometry. It also contains continued fractions, quadratic equations...
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  • i}} . The usual laws for planar trigonometry of a triangle hold for this triangle. Consider the projective (spherical) triangle at the point P i {\displaystyle...
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  • Thumbnail for Anders Johan Lexell
    was the prominent mathematician of his time who contributed to spherical trigonometry with new and interesting solutions, which he took as a basis for...
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    mathematician who had specialised in Spherical Trigonometry, so that they could be a part of the Great Trigonometric Survey. In 1832, under the leadership...
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