"Divide a right angle in as many parts as you want and construct herefrom the sine table. (Einen rechten Winckell in also viel theile theilenn alß man will, vnnd aus demselben den Canonen Sinuum vermachenn.)"
— Jost Bürgi

January 1, 1970

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As quoted by Menso Folkerts, "Eine bisher unbekannte Schrift von Jost Bürgi zur Trigonometrie" pp. 107–114. Arithmetik, Geometrie und Algebra in der frühen Neuzeit ed. R. Gebhardt (2014) Adam-Ries-Bund, Annaberg-Buchholz. Ref: Grégoire Nicollier, "How Bürgi computed the sines of all integer angles simultaneously in 1586" (2018) Math Semesterber (2018) Vol. 65, pp. 15–34.