"The most conspicuous authors of both Trigonometries amongst the British, who have been consulted by us, are Caswell, in Wallis's Works, Keil, Simpson, Robertson, Mr. , Emerson, and [Benjamin] Martin; and of those who have treated of them occasionally, Oughtred, in his Clavis Mathematica, and Circles of Proportion, Wallis, Jones, Wingate, [Henry] Sherwin, and Gardiner, in their Tables of Logarithms; Sir Isaac Newton, in his Univ. Arithm. Geometrical Problem II. Harris and Chambers in their dictionaries. Plane Trigonometry alone has been treated by [Philip] Ronayne, Mr. Thomas Simpson, Maseres, and Muller. However, the merits of some foreigners also cannot, without injustice, be suppressed. Such are Copernicus, in his Astronomia Instaurata; Balanus, a modern Greek; Simon Stevin, commented upon by '; Clavius; M. de la Caille; M. de la Lande, in his Astronomie, tom. III. de Chales; Ozanam; Segnerus; and the labours of Schottus, Tacquet, and others, are commendable. We need not mention the parents of these sciences, Theodosius, Ptolemy, Menelaus, and ."