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Joost Bürgi; Información personal; Nacimiento: 28 de febrero de 1552 Lichtensteig : Fallecimiento: 31 de enero de 1632 (79 años) Kassel : Nacionalidad: Suiza: Información profesional; Ocupación: Matemático aficionado, astrónomo y relojero: Empleador: Guillermo IV de Hesse-Kassel (desde 1579) Rodolfo II del Sacro Imperio Romano Germánico ...
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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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Jost Bürgi (also Joost, Jobst; Latinized surname Burgius or Byrgius; 28 February 1552 – 31 January 1632 [1] ), active primarily at the courts in Kassel and Prague, was a Swiss clockmaker, a maker of astronomical instruments and a mathematician .
- 28 February 1552, Lichtensteig, Toggenburg, Switzerland
- Logarithms
Joost Bürgi o Jobst Bürgi fue un relojero y matemático suizo. En ocasiones es acreditado como el inventor de los logaritmos, aunque habitualmente el crédito de este descubrimiento se atribuye al británico John Napier, quien fue el primero en publicar su trabajo.
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.
Bürgi was born 28 February 1552, in Lichtensteig in the Toggenburg , a 70 km long alpine highland valley along the Thur River and southwest of Mount Säntis in the Canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland .
Joost Bürgi. 1552-1632. German Mathematician. I n his work as a clockmaker and astronomer, Joost Bürgi needed accurate mathematical information, and for this reason developed the concept of logarithms into a practical method of computation.
