Pitiscus is a lunar impact crater that lies in the southern part of the Moon's near side, just to the northwest of the larger crater Hommel.

There is a low central peak formation at the midpoint of the interior, and the northern end of this ridge is overlaid by the circular craterlet Pitiscus A.

By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint that is closest to Pitiscus.

To the southeast is the prominent crater Pitiscus, and to the north is Nicolai.

The lunar crater Pitiscus is named after him.

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Pitiscus achieved fame with his influential work written in Latin, called Trigonometria: sive de solutione triangulorum tractatus brevis et perspicuus ( 1595, first edition printed in Heidelberg ), which introduced the word " trigonometry " to the English and French languages, translations of which had appeared in 1614 and 1619, respectively.

Pitiscus edited Thesaurus mathematicus ( 1613 ) in which he improved the trigonometric tables of Georg Joachim Rheticus and also corrected Rheticus ’ Magnus Canon doctrinæ triangulorum.

In 1670, he published trigonometric and logarithmic tables more accurate than the existing ones of Ulacq, Pitiscus, and Briggs.

Bartholomaeus Pitiscus ( also Barthélemy, Bartholomeo, August 24, 1561 – July 2, 1613 ) was a 16th century German trigonometrist, astronomer and theologian who first coined the word Trigonometry.

Pitiscus was born to poor parents in Grünberg ( Zielona Góra ) in Lower Silesia, the part of Austrian-ruled Duchy of Glogau ( Głogów ).

Pitiscus was subsequently appointed court chaplain at Breslau ( Wrocław ) and court preacher to Frederick.

The classical scholar Samuel Pitiscus ( 1637-1727 ) was his nephew.

For the crater, see Pitiscus ( crater ).

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