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Who was the first person to use the word 'Trigonometria' as a title for a book in 1595?

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Bartholomaeus Pitiscus

Pitiscus, a German mathematician and theologian, coined the term in his work 'Trigonometria: sive de solutione triangulorum tractatus brevis et perspicuus', which introduced the word into the mathematical lexicon.

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