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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.
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.
Quick Info. Born. 28 February 1552. Lichtensteig, St Gallen, Switzerland. Died. 31 January 1632. Kassel, Hesse-Kassel (now Germany) Summary. Jost Bürgi was a Swiss mathematician who discovered logarithms independently of the Scottish mathematician Napier. View two larger pictures. Biography.
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 ...
"Indications that Bürgi knew about Logarithms earlier in 1588 come from a letter of the astronomer Reimarus Ursus Dithmarus, ... L. Novy, Joost Büurgi, ...
At about the same time in Switzerland, Joost Bürgi, a court clock maker by profession, grappled with the same issues of computation. Bürgi's key motivation was not only to facilitate computation, but also to produce a single table that could be applied to all arithmetical operations, rather than needing various tables to perform them all.
