"The British mathematicians have been the greatest, nay... the only improvers of Trigonometry within these two centuries. ...[N]ot to mention the extraordinary inventions of Lord Neper... nor the analogies, wherein sines and tangents of half-arches are used, nor the applications of Trigonometry to of the sphere, for all which we are indebted... the very words of Trigonometry, cosine, cotangent, &c. have been first used by the writers of that nation."