In one of his astronomical works the prominent arabic medieval scientists Thabit ibn Qurra （836-901） studied the visible motion of the Sun and found the points, where its velocity is maximum or minimum. He also lbun...In one of his astronomical works the prominent arabic medieval scientists Thabit ibn Qurra （836-901） studied the visible motion of the Sun and found the points, where its velocity is maximum or minimum. He also lbund the points on the ecliptic, where this velocity is equal to the average velocity of the Sun over all the ecliptic. For this purpose he used the idea of infinitely small arcs and their ratios in different points of the circle. The great scientist Leonard Euler （1707-1783） introduced in his works on spherical trigonometry the line-element ds of the surface of the sphere, i.e. the differential of the arc length. He constructed the spherical trigonometry as an inner geometry on the surface of the sphere. He replaced the trigonometry lines, which were in use befbre him, by trigonometric functions.展开更多
文摘In one of his astronomical works the prominent arabic medieval scientists Thabit ibn Qurra （836-901） studied the visible motion of the Sun and found the points, where its velocity is maximum or minimum. He also lbund the points on the ecliptic, where this velocity is equal to the average velocity of the Sun over all the ecliptic. For this purpose he used the idea of infinitely small arcs and their ratios in different points of the circle. The great scientist Leonard Euler （1707-1783） introduced in his works on spherical trigonometry the line-element ds of the surface of the sphere, i.e. the differential of the arc length. He constructed the spherical trigonometry as an inner geometry on the surface of the sphere. He replaced the trigonometry lines, which were in use befbre him, by trigonometric functions.
