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Joos Bürgi ( Lichtensteig, 28 febbraio 1552 – Kassel, 31 gennaio 1632) è stato un astronomo e matematico svizzero . Indice. 1 Biografia. 2 Bibliografia. 3 Altri progetti. 4 Collegamenti esterni. Biografia. Nato in Svizzera, acquisì una notevole abilità nella matematica e nelle osservazioni e computazioni astronomiche.
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.
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.
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. Home > Indice delle biografie >. Svizzero di nascita, egli venne acquisendo una notevole abilità nella matematica e nelle osservazioni e computazioni astronomiche. Dal 1579 operò come orologiaio e costruttore di strumenti presso l'osservatorio di Kassel (il primo dotato di una cupola girevole).
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. 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.
