Bartholomäus Pitiscus (1561–1613)
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Gass, Allg. Deutsche Biographie. Leipzig, v. 26, 1888.
A. G. Kästner, Geschichte der Mathematik. Göttingen, v. 1, 1796, p. 564-565, 581-590, 612-626; v. 2, 1797, p. 743-746.
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M. Cantor, Vorlesungen über Geschichte der Mathematik. Leipzig, v. 2, second ed., 1900, Pitiscus, p. 603-604, 619, 642, 646-647, etc.
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Catalogue of the Crawford Library of the Royal Observatory Edinburgh. Edinburgh, 1890. Pitiscus and Rheticus entries are here of interest to us.
Our words tangent and secant are also due to a sixteenth century writer, Thomas Fincke (1561-1656), a Dane, in his Geometriae Rotundi Libri XIIII ad Fridericum secundum. Basle, 1583; second ed. 1591.
Bibliothèque Nationale, Catalogue Général, Paris, v. 138, 1936, entries under Pitiscus.
A. W. Pollard & G. R. Redgrave, A Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed . . . 1475-1640. . . . London, 1926. STC. Two errors in Pitiscus listings.
W. W. Bishop, A Checklist of American Copies of “Short-Title Catalogue” Books. Ann Arbor, Mich., 1944. STCA.
C. K. Edmonds, Huntington Library Supplement to the Short Title Catalogue, Huntington Lib. Bull., no. 4, 1933. STCH.
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- © Copyright 1949 American Mathematical Society
- Journal: Math. Comp. 3 (1949), 390-397
- MSC: Primary 01.0X
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0025-5718-1949-0028245-1
- MathSciNet review: 0028245