Samuel Pitiscus
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Samuel Pitiscus was a classical scholar from Zutphen.

He revised Rosinus'
Johannes Rosinus
Johannes Rosinus was the German author of a work on Roman antiquities called Antiquitatum romanarum corpus absolutissimum, which first appeared at Basel in 1585....

 work on Roman
Ancient Rome
Ancient Rome was a thriving civilization that grew on the Italian Peninsula as early as the 8th century BC. Located along the Mediterranean Sea and centered on the city of Rome, it expanded to one of the largest empires in the ancient world....

 antiquities, publishing his Lexicon antiquitatum romanarum. He was a nephew of Bartholomaeus Pitiscus
Bartholomaeus Pitiscus
Bartholomaeus Pitiscus was a 16th century German trigonometrist, astronomer and theologian who first coined the word Trigonometry....

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