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Johann Müller Regiomontanus

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Regiomontanus

Woodcut of Regiomontanus made by the artist Braeht at an unknown date.

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Johann Müller Regiomontanus retranslated ancient mathematical texts and wrote the first book to explore plane and spherical trigonometry.

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