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Definition of Spherical trigonometry
1. Noun. (mathematics) the trigonometry of spherical triangles.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Spherical Trigonometry
Literary usage of Spherical trigonometry
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Trigonometry, Plane and Spherical: With the Construction and Application of by Thomas Simpson (1810)
"... spherical trigonometry. DEFINITIONS. 1. A great circle of a sphere is a section
of the sphere by a plane passing through the centre. 2. ..."
2. A History of Greek Mathematics by Thomas Little Heath (1921)
"spherical trigonometry: formulae in solution of spherical triangles. In spherical
trigonometry, as already stated, Ptolemy obtains everything that he wants ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"Pseudo-spherical Trigonometry.— A given sphere has constant positive curvature (see
... Its formulas are obtainable from those of spherical trigonometry by ..."
4. A Course of Mathematics: For the Use of Academies as Well as Private Tuition by Charles Hutton, Robert Adrain (1831)
"spherical trigonometry is the art of computing the measures of the sides and
angles of spherical triangles. Def. 3. A right-angled spherical triangle has ..."
5. The Collected Mathematical Papers of Arthur Cayley by Arthur Cayley (1891)
""I take the opportunity of noticing that the theorem in spherical trigonometry,
which I gave in the February Number, is not new, but, as pointed out by Prof ..."
6. A Treatise on Elementary Geometry: With Appendices Containing a Collection by William Chauvenet (1896)
"spherical trigonometry treats of the methods of computing the unknown from the
... Now the real objects of investigation in spherical trigonometry are the ..."
7. Elements of Geometry and Trigonometry from the Works of A.M. Legendre by Charles Davies, Adrien Marie Legendre, John Howard Van Amringe (1885)
"spherical trigonometry is that branch of Mathematics which treats of the solution
of spherical triangles. In every spherical triangle there are six parts: ..."
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