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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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    Isoazimuthal Loxodromic navigation Meridian arc Rhumb line Spherical geometry Spherical trigonometry Admiralty Manual of Navigation, Volume 1, The Stationery...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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