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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.
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
Jost Bürgi ist Uhrenmacher, Instrumentenbauer, Mathematiker und Astronom in ein- und derselben Person. Mit hoher handwerklicher Präzision, innovativen Konstruktionen und neuartigen mathematischen Methoden erbringt er in jedem dieser Gebiete mit die höchsten Leistungen seiner Zeit und vereint sie zu einer einzigartigen Prozesskette der neuen Astronomie.
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 habitualmente el crédito de este ...
Jost Bur¨ gi and the Discovery of the Logarithms. by J¨org Waldvogel Seminar fu¨r Angewandte Mathematik ETH Zu¨rich 8092 Zu¨rich, Switzerland. Abstract In the year of 1620 the printing office of the University of Prague published a 58-page table containing the values a. n= (1.0001)nfor 0 ≤n ≤23027, rounded to 9 decimal digits.
Jost Bürgi Porträt.jpg 407 × 600; 93 KB Armillary sphere with astronomical clock.jpg 2,448 × 3,264; 1.86 MB Equation clock, made for Landgrave William IV of Hesse-Kassel by Jost Burgi and Hans Jacob Emck, Germany, Kassel, 1591, gilt brass, silver, iron - Metropolitan Museum of Art - New York City - DSC07083.jpg 3,641 × 4,739; 9.75 MB
Joost Bürgi nasceu em 28 de fevereiro de 1522 em Lichtensteig, na Suíça, e morreu em 31 de janeiro de 1632 em Kassel (agora Alemanha). Foi o homem mais hábil, e o mais famoso que trabalhou com relógios na sua época. Ele também fez instrumentos científicos importantes, notavelmente para o Landgraf de Hesse-Kassel Wilhelm der Weise, que ...
