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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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