Wittich, Paul (c. 1546-86)

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 4100. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

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Born in Breslau, Silesia (now Wroclaw, Poland), invented (or at least developed) `prosthaphaeresis', a formalism of trigonometry that allowed one to multiply and divide trigonometric functions by the easier process of adding and subtracting instead (in the manner of logarithms). He wrote a commentary on COPERNICUS's De Revolutionibus, which foreshadowed the Tychonic system. He worked with TYCHO B...

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