“All [previous] procedures for calculating chords and sines... [were] based in principle on the method which Ptolemy had presented in his {{w|Almagest}}. Totally different... is a procedure which Jost Bürgi...invented... [H]e was able to compute the sine of each angle with any desired accuracy in a... short time... Bürgi explained his procedure in ...{{w|Fundamentum Astronomiae}}.”

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