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Preliminary Remarks on Medieval Hebrew Trigonometric Tables (2019)

Goldstein, Bernard R. (Author)

Aleph: Historical Studies in Science and Judaism
Volume: 19
Issue: 1
Pages: 131-136

URI: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/724813

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In this brief communication, tables for the trigonometric functions, sine, cosine, and versine, are explored as they appear in sets of medieval Hebrew astronomical tables. Based on this preliminary account, it seems that these tables are not closely related to one another.

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