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.
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Books Books Jost Bürgi Library Reading Room QA55 .C57 2015 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31560000040374
Books Books Jost Bürgi Library Reading Room QA55 .C57 2015 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31560000040630

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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