Aparat matematyczny De revolutionibus orbium coelestium... Mikołaja Kopernika oraz jego recepcja w nauczaniu szkolnym realizowanym na ziemiach polskich od XVI do XXI wieku
The mathematical apparatus of Nicolaus Copernicus‘s De revolutionibus orbium coelestium and its reception in secondary school education on the Polish territories from the 16th to the 21st century

Summary/Abstract: The article analyses the contents of chapters XII, XIII and XIV of Nicolaus Copernicus’ first book De rev-olutionibus orbium coelestium. These chapters contain the trigonometric material on which the astron-omer based all considerations about heliocentrism. In chapter XII, he built “chords of a circle” tables,which today we would call sinus tables. Chapters XIII and XIV dealt with the solution of flat and spher-ical triangles. In this paper, this mathematical apparatus has been analysed from a contemporary pointof view, using modern symbols and terminology. The analysis was carried out on the reception of Co-pernicus mathematics in school teaching on the Polish territories from the 16thto the 21st century.

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