Jost Bürgi (also Joost, Jobst; Latinized surname Burgius or Byrgius; 28 February 1552 – 31 January 1632), active primarily at the courts in Kassel and...
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pronounced [just]. Joost Banckert (c. 1597 – 1647), Dutch Vice Admiral Joost Berman (1793–1855), Dutch judge and poet Joost Bürgi (1552–1632), Swiss clockmaker...
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History of logarithms (section Bürgi)
publication (1614) was known by the time Bürgi published at the behest of Johannes Kepler. We know that Bürgi had some way of simplifying calculations...
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included the mathematicians Ibn Yunis, Johannes Werner, Paul Wittich, Joost Bürgi, Christopher Clavius, and François Viète. Wittich, Ibn Yunis, and Clavius...
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Kingdom John Tolson, United Kingdom John Whitehurst, United Kingdom Joost Bürgi, Switzerland Joseph Knibb, United Kingdom Konstantin Chaykin, Russia...
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1964 Richard E. Byrd (1888–1957) WGPSN Byrgius 24°44′S 65°23′W / 24.73°S 65.38°W / -24.73; -65.38 (Byrgius) 84.46 1935 Joost Bürgi (1552–1632) WGPSN...
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(Germany, 1612). 1614: Logarithms – John Napier (Scotland, 1614) and Joost Bürgi (Switzerland, 1618). Analytic geometry – René Descartes, Pierre de Fermat...
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Daniel Bovet (born 1907–1992), 1957 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Joost Bürgi (1552–1632), mathematician and watchmaker Johann Büttikofer (1850–1929)...
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and by marriage Landgravine of Hesse-Darmstadt (d. 1587) February 28 – Joost Bürgi, Swiss clockmaker and mathematician (d. 1632) March 1 – Anna of Cleves...
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Catherine Wolfe Bruce Giordano Bruno Henri Buisson Johann Tobias Bürg Joost Bürgi Sherburne Wesley Burnham Richard Evelyn Byrd Cai Lun Santiago Ramón y...
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and by marriage Landgravine of Hesse-Darmstadt (d. 1587) February 28 – Joost Bürgi, Swiss clockmaker and mathematician (d. 1632) March 1 – Anna of Cleves...
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in upper left Coordinates 24°42′S 65°18′W / 24.7°S 65.3°W / -24.7; -65.3 Diameter 87 km Depth 4.6 km Colongitude 65° at sunrise Eponym Joost Bürgi...
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in mathematics contributed to the early formulation of logarithms by Joost Bürgi and John Napier. He was also associated with Tycho Brahe, Johannes Praetorius...
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churchman, papal diplomat and writer on art theory (b. 1570) January 31 – Joost Bürgi, Swiss clockmaker and mathematician (b. 1552) February 7 – Margherita...
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astronomers in Kassel at the court of the prince. Here Rothmann and Joost Bürgi, a Swiss mathematician, worked. The two working groups maintained a scientific...
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churchman, papal diplomat and writer on art theory (b. 1570) January 31 – Joost Bürgi, Swiss clockmaker and mathematician (b. 1552) February 7 – Margherita...
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developed by Commandino Federico (inventor of the polymetric compass) and Joost Bürgi. Proportional eight spikes compass: invented by Fabrizio Mordente and...
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YS1 Anatoli Papanov (1922–1987), Russian actor MPC · 2480 2481 Bürgi 1977 UQ Jost Bürgi (1552–1632), Swiss clockmaker and maker of scientific instruments...
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Liberal 1895 1896 Joseph-Auguste Boinay Conservative 1896 1899 Friedrich Bürgi FDP/PRD 1896 1908 Jakob Freiburghaus FDP/PRD 1896 1927 Virgile Rossel FDP/PRD...
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Sourbeck Friedrich Bürgi Evangelical Right 1 Edmund von Steiger Bern 7 4 Free Democratic Party 4 Adolf Müller Fritz Bühlmann Gottfried Joost Gottlieb Berger...
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Pietropolli (ITA) LPR Brakes–Farnese Vini 15–19 February Vuelta a Andalucía Spain 2.1 Joost Posthuma (NED) Rabobank 18–22 February Volta ao Algarve Portugal 2.1 Alberto...
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