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married Dorothea Fincke, the daughter of the mathematician and physicist Thomas Fincke, who invented the terms 'tangent' and 'secant' and taught at the University of Copenhagen for more than 60 years. Through this marriage, Worm became connected to the Bartholin family, a prominent dynasty of physicians and scholars who played a central role in the intellectual life of the University of

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