related to Jost Bürgi at Wikimedia Commons Quotations related to Jost Bürgi at Wikiquote Bürgi, Jost from Oliver Knill History pages Bürgi's Progress Tabulen...
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Amman (1539–1591), Swiss Jost Bürgi (1552–1632), Swiss clockmaker, maker of astronomical instruments, and mathematician Jost Metzler (1909–1975), German...
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Burgi may refer to: Chuck Burgi (born 1952), American drummer Irene Bürgi, Swiss curler Jost Bürgi (1552–1632), Swiss clockmaker, mathematician and maker...
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Fundamentum Astronomiae (redirect from Fundamentum Astronomiae (Jost Bürgi))
Astronomiae is a historic manuscript presented by Jost Bürgi to Emperor Rudolf II in 1592. It describes Bürgi's trigonometry based algorithms called Kunstweg...
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chords Staudacher, S., 2014. Jost Bürgi, Kepler und der Kaiser. Verlag NZZ, Zürich. Launert, Dieter (2015). Nova Kepleriana: Bürgis Kunstweg im Fundamentum...
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Kunstweg (redirect from Kunstweg (Jost Bürgi))
Bürgi's Kunstweg is a set of algorithms invented by Jost Bürgi at the end of the 16th century. They can be used for the calculation of sines to an arbitrary...
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such as the use of tables of progressions, extensively developed by Jost Bürgi around 1600. The computational advance available via common logarithms...
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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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astronomers for performing calculations as late as 1671. For instance, Jost Bürgi in Fundamentum Astronomiae (presented to Emperor Rudolf II in 1592), his...
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prosthaphaeresis or the use of tables of progressions, extensively developed by Jost Bürgi around 1600. Napier coined the term for logarithm in Middle Latin, logarithmus...
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The first two of these are believed to have been derived by Jost Bürgi,[citation needed] who related them to [Tycho?] Brahe;[citation needed]...
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The cross-beat escapement was invented in 1584 by Jost Bürgi, who also developed the remontoire. Bürgi's clocks were a great improvement in accuracy as they...
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Jost Bürgi and Antonius Eisenhoit: Armillary sphere with astronomical clock, made in 1585 in Kassel, now at Nordiska Museet in Stockholm...
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Nathaniel Bowditch (indentured bookkeeper) Achille Brocot (clockmaker) Jost Bürgi (clockmaker) Marvin Ray Burns (veteran) Gerolamo Cardano (medical doctor)...
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it will often be found to run very fast, gaining many hours per day. Jost Bürgi invented the cross-beat escapement in 1584, a variation of the verge escapement...
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Jordan [de] (1939). Finite differences trace their origins back to one of Jost Bürgi's algorithms (c. 1592) and work by others including Isaac Newton. The formal...
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he met Swiss instrument maker Jost Bürgi (1552–1632). Both were autodidacts and thus had a similar background. As Bürgi did not understand Latin, Reimers...
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outlined in Fundamentum Astronomiae published by the Swiss clockmaker Jost Bürgi, through John Dee. Napier's formulation was awkward to work with, but...
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attracted some of the best scientific instrument makers of the time, such as Jost Bürgi, Erasmus Habermel and Hans Christoph Schissler. They had direct contact...
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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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Grammateus and Michael Stifel in the 16th century. In the late 16th century, Jost Bürgi would use Roman numerals for exponents in a way similar to that of Chuquet...
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1723) Henry Compton, English bishop and botanist (died 1713) January 31 – Jost Bürgi, Swiss clockmaker and mathematician (born 1552) May 24 – Robert Hues,...
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priest, 5th Superior General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1543) 1632 – Jost Bürgi, Swiss clockmaker and mathematician (b. 1552) 1665 – Johannes Clauberg...
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century, Taqi al-Din built a clock with marks every 1/5 minute. In 1579, Jost Bürgi built a clock for William of Hesse that marked seconds.: 105 In 1581...
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other prominent scholars (Johannes Matthäus Wackher von Wackhenfels, Jost Bürgi, David Fabricius, Martin Bachazek, and Johannes Brengger, among others)...
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by Swiss clockmaker Jost Bürgi around 1595. Usually the "Kalenderuhr" (three month running, springdriven, calendar-desk-clock) Bürgi is considered the oldest...
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raise money for its scholarship program. In October 2022, HSNY opened the Jost Bürgi Research Library, containing over 25,000 items related to time and timekeeping...
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logarithms. While others had approached the idea of logarithms, notably Jost Bürgi, it was Napier who first published the concept, along with easily used...
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individuals (or about 2.64% of the population) did not answer the question. Jost Bürgi (1552 in Lichtensteig – 1632) a Swiss clockmaker, a maker of astronomical...
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