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The development of modern trigonometry shifted during the western Age of Enlightenment, beginning with 17th-century mathematics (Isaac Newton and James Stirling) and reaching its modern form with Leonhard Euler (1748).
From this right triangle we get the following definitions of the six trig functions. Remembering both the relationship between all six of the trig functions and their right triangle definitions will be useful in this course on occasion. Next, we need to touch on radians.