Maligned for mathematics: Sir Thomas Urquhart and his Trissotetras.

Thomas Urquhart (1611–1660), celebrated for his English translation of Rabelais' Gargantua et Pantagruel, has earned some notoriety for his eccentric, putatively incomprehensible early book on trigonometry The Trissotetras (1645). The Trissotetras was too impractical to succeed in its own day as a t...

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Published in:	Annals of Science Vol. 76; no. 2; pp. 113 - 157
Main Author:	Haas, Robert
Format:	Article
Published:	Taylor & Francis Ltd Apr2019
Subjects:	Urquhart, Thomas Trigonometry Mathematicians Wallace, William Mathematics
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost