W. W. Rouse Ball, A Short Account of the History of Mathematics (1888)
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It would seem that J. Bürgi, independently of Napier, had constructed before 1611 a table of antilogarithms of a series of natural numbers: this was published in 1620. ...Bürgi also employed decimal franctions ...
— W. W. Rouse Ball
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About Jost Bürgi
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, mathematician, and writer. Bürgi has been credited, independently of John Napier, as a co-inventor of logarithms.
About Jost Bürgi
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, mathematician, and writer. Bürgi has been credited, independently of John Napier, as a co-inventor of logarithms.
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