Jost Bürgi (also Joost, Jobst; Latinized surname Burgius or Byrgius; 28 February 1552 – 31 January 1632), active primarily at the courts in Kassel and...

Burgi may refer to: Chuck Burgi (born 1952), American drummer Irene Bürgi, Swiss curler Jost Bürgi (1552–1632), Swiss clockmaker, mathematician and maker...

Amman (1539–1591), Swiss Jost Bürgi (1552–1632), Swiss clockmaker, maker of astronomical instruments, and mathematician Jost Metzler (1909–1975), German...

Astronomiae is a historic manuscript presented by Jost Bürgi to Emperor Rudolf II in 1592. It describes Bürgi's trigonometry based algorithms called Kunstweg...

chords Staudacher, S., 2014. Jost Bürgi, Kepler und der Kaiser. Verlag NZZ, Zürich. Launert, Dieter (2015). Nova Kepleriana: Bürgis Kunstweg im Fundamentum...

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...

astronomers for performing calculations as late as 1671. For instance, Jost Bürgi in Fundamentum Astronomiae (presented to Emperor Rudolf II in 1592), his...

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...

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...

such as the use of tables of progressions, extensively developed by Jost Bürgi around 1600. The computational advance available via common logarithms...

The first two of these are believed to have been derived by Jost Bürgi,[citation needed] who related them to [Tycho?] Brahe;[citation needed]...

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...

Jost Bürgi and Antonius Eisenhoit: Armillary sphere with astronomical clock, made in 1585 in Kassel, now at Nordiska Museet in Stockholm...

Celestial globe by Jost Bürgi (1594)...

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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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

logarithms. While others had approached the idea of logarithms, notably Jost Bürgi, it was Napier who first published the concept, along with easily used...

other prominent scholars (Johannes Matthäus Wackher von Wackhenfels, Jost Bürgi, David Fabricius, Martin Bachazek, and Johannes Brengger, among others)...

priest, 5th Superior General of the Society of Jesus (b. 1543) 1632 – Jost Bürgi, Swiss clockmaker and mathematician (b. 1552) 1665 – Johannes Clauberg...

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...

outlined in Fundamentum Astronomiae published by the Swiss clockmaker Jost Bürgi, through John Dee. Napier's formulation was awkward to work with, but...

by Swiss clockmaker Jost Bürgi around 1595. Usually the "Kalenderuhr" (three month running, springdriven, calendar-desk-clock) Bürgi is considered the oldest...

simpler by the contemporaneous invention of logarithms by John Napier and Jost Bürgi. Kepler succeeded in formulating mathematical laws of planetary motion...

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...

1535 – Cornelius Gemma, Dutch astronomer and astrologer (d. 1578) 1552 – Jost Bürgi, Swiss mathematician and clockmaker (d. 1632) 1675 – Guillaume Delisle...