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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.
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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Bürgi stated that his tables could be used for all manner of calculations, including multiplication, division, extraction of roots, and computing mean proportionals. He provided some 26 examples of the various calculations and the corresponding use of the tables. Here we examine two of his examples.
Consequently, along with handing over of Bürgi’s Coss draft to Kepler, Kepler and Bürgi swore to not betray each other and to keep the methods and innovations in mathematics of the other secret until he published them himself (Staudacher 2014).
25 de oct. de 2016 · Abstract. Jost Bürgi (1552–1632) is not only one of the first persons who set up tables of logarithms for practical use but also invented a method to calculate highly precise tables of the sine function with small increment of the argument, and this with only a modest amount of calculations.
