Mathematics in Ancient and Medieval India c8.225

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c8.225

The table of Al-Battani is undoubtedly an improvement over Indian and Greek chords. Abūl-wefa (c. 980 A. D.) computed the table of Ptolemy with much care.¹ By fourteenth century A. D. it was through Peurback (c. 1460 A.D.) and Regiomontanus (c. 1464 A. D.) that the European scholars in general became well acquainted with it.²

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