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Joost Bürgi ou Jost Bürgi (Lichtensteig, 28 de fevereiro de 1552 — Kassel, 31 de janeiro de 1632) foi um relojoeiro e matemático suíço. [1]
- Suíça
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.
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.
- 28 February 1552, Lichtensteig, Toggenburg, Switzerland
- Logarithms
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.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Jost Bürgi was a Swiss mathematician who discovered logarithms independently of the Scottish mathematician Napier. View two larger pictures. Biography. Jost Bürgi's first name is sometime written as Joost, Jobst or Justus while his second name is sometime written in a Latin form Byrgius.
Joost Bürgi ou Jost Bürgi ( Lichtensteig, 28 de fevereiro de 1552 — Kassel, 31 de janeiro de 1632) foi um relojoeiro e matemático suíço.
Joost Bürgi. 1552-1632. German Mathematician. I n his work as a clockmaker and astronomer, Joost Bürgi needed accurate mathematical information, and for this reason developed the concept of logarithms into a practical method of computation.
