Jost Burgi's Arithmetische und geometrische Progress Tabulen (1620) : edition and commentary / Kathleen Clark.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: German, English Series: Science networks historical studies ; v. 53.Publisher: New York : Birkhäuser : Springer, [2015]Description: xii, 258 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cmContent type:
  • still image
  • text
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  • unmediated
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  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781493931606
  • 1493931601
Other title:
  • Arithmetische und geometrische Progress Tabulen (1620)
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Contents:
A brief biography of Jost Bürgi (1552-1632) : Introduction -- Lichtensteig and surrounds: Bürgi's early life and work (1552-1579) -- Connections in Kassel: 1579-1603 -- Prague: 1603-1631 -- Return to Kassel: 1631-1632. Details of Aritmetische und Geometrische Progreß Tabulen: printed tables, manuscripts, and mathematical details : Introduction -- Brief descriptions of extant prints and manuscripts -- The München print (Mn) of 1620 -- The Gdańsk manuscript (Gk) -- The Graz manuscript (Gz) -- Detailed description of the Gz manuscript - The content of Bürgi's "Kurzer Bericht" (as given in the Gk and Gz copies) -- The foreword to the "truehearted reader" -- The tables -- Graphical depiction of the tables and relation -- The "Kurzer Bericht." Aritmetische und Geometrische Progreß Tabulen: edition, translation, and commentary : Introduction -- A guide to reading the manuscript transcription and translation -- Gz manuscript of Aritmetische un Geometrische Progreß Tabulen (1620) -- Transcription -- Translation and commentary. Final perspectives. Appendix A: Bürgi biography at a glance. Appendix B: Napier's argument and construction of logarithms. Appendix C: The tables of the Aritmetische und Geometrische Progreß Tabulen/Sambt gründlichem unterricht/wie solche nützlich in allerley Rechnungen zu gebrauchen/und verstanden werden sol (Bürgi, 1620). References. Index of names. Index of places. Subject index.
Summary: This monograph presents a groundbreaking scholarly treatment of the Swiss mathematician Jost Bürgi's original work on logarithms. It provides the first-even English translation of Bürgi's text and illuminates his role in the development of the conception of logarithms, for which John Napier is traditionally given priority. high-resolution scans of each page of his handwritten text are reproduced for the reader and as a means of preserving an important work for which there are very few surviving copies.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

A brief biography of Jost Bürgi (1552-1632) : Introduction -- Lichtensteig and surrounds: Bürgi's early life and work (1552-1579) -- Connections in Kassel: 1579-1603 -- Prague: 1603-1631 -- Return to Kassel: 1631-1632. Details of Aritmetische und Geometrische Progreß Tabulen: printed tables, manuscripts, and mathematical details : Introduction -- Brief descriptions of extant prints and manuscripts -- The München print (Mn) of 1620 -- The Gdańsk manuscript (Gk) -- The Graz manuscript (Gz) -- Detailed description of the Gz manuscript - The content of Bürgi's "Kurzer Bericht" (as given in the Gk and Gz copies) -- The foreword to the "truehearted reader" -- The tables -- Graphical depiction of the tables and relation -- The "Kurzer Bericht." Aritmetische und Geometrische Progreß Tabulen: edition, translation, and commentary : Introduction -- A guide to reading the manuscript transcription and translation -- Gz manuscript of Aritmetische un Geometrische Progreß Tabulen (1620) -- Transcription -- Translation and commentary. Final perspectives. Appendix A: Bürgi biography at a glance. Appendix B: Napier's argument and construction of logarithms. Appendix C: The tables of the Aritmetische und Geometrische Progreß Tabulen/Sambt gründlichem unterricht/wie solche nützlich in allerley Rechnungen zu gebrauchen/und verstanden werden sol (Bürgi, 1620). References. Index of names. Index of places. Subject index.

This monograph presents a groundbreaking scholarly treatment of the Swiss mathematician Jost Bürgi's original work on logarithms. It provides the first-even English translation of Bürgi's text and illuminates his role in the development of the conception of logarithms, for which John Napier is traditionally given priority. high-resolution scans of each page of his handwritten text are reproduced for the reader and as a means of preserving an important work for which there are very few surviving copies.

In German and English; an English text describing a German document from the 1600s.

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