"The earliest Moorish writer of distinction... is Geber ibn Aphla... His works... chiefly... astronomy and trigonometry, were translated into Latin by Gerard... 1533. He seems to have discovered the theorem that the sines of the angles of a spherical triangle are proportional to the sines of the opposite sides."

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