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Biografía. Bürgi nació en 1552 en Lichtensteig, Toggenburg, por entonces territorio de la Abadía de San Galo (ahora parte del Cantón de San Galo, Suiza ). No se sabe mucho sobre su vida o su educación antes de su empleo como astrónomo y relojero en la corte de Guillermo IV en Kassel en 1579; se ha especulado que adquirió sus ...
Joost Bürgi was a mathematician who invented logarithms independently of the Scottish mathematician John Napier. Bürgi served as court watchmaker to Duke Wilhelm IV of Hesse-Kassel from 1579 to 1592 and worked in the royal observatory at Kassel, where he developed geometrical and astronomical.
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Jost Bürgi (also Joost, Jobst; Latinized surname Burgius or Byrgius; 28 February 1552 – 31 January 1632), active primarily at the courts in Kassel and Prague, was a Swiss clockmaker, a maker of astronomical instruments and a mathematician.
De Wikipedia, la enciclopedia encyclopedia. Joost Bürgi o Jobst Bürgi (también conocido por su forma latinizada Byrgius) (28 de febrero de 1552, Lichtensteig, Suiza - 31 de enero de 1632, Kassel, Hesse-Kassel) fue un relojero y matemático suizo. En ocasiones es acreditado como el inventor de los logaritmos (que publicó en 1620), aunque ...
Jost Bürgi was a Swiss mathematician who discovered logarithms independently of the Scottish mathematician Napier. View two larger pictures. Biography. Jost Bürgi's first name is sometime written as Joost, Jobst or Justus while his second name is sometime written in a Latin form Byrgius.
Joost Bürgi. Born in Switzerland, Bürgi acquired considerable skills in mathematics and astronomical observations and computations. In 1579, he became clockmaker and instrument-maker at the Kassel observatory, the first to be fitted with a revolving dome. His early reputation as instrument-maker prompted an invitation [...]
González-Velasco stated that “for the sake of fairness that the earliest discoverer of logarithms was Joost, or Jobst, Bürgi (1552–1632), a Swiss clockmaker, about 1588” (p. 100). As was the case with Bürgi, Napier began working on his conception of logarithms some years before his first publication in 1614.
