ProofWiki:Mathematicians/Henry Briggs
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English mathematician most famous for converting natural (Napierian) logarithms into common (Briggsian) logarithms.
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Nationality
English
History
- Born: Feb 1561, Warleywood, Yorkshire, England
- Died: 26 Jan 1630, Oxford, England
Theorems and Definitions
Books and Papers
- 1602: A Table to find the Height of the Pole, the Magnetic Declination being given
- 1610: Tables for the Improvement of Navigation
- 1616, 1618: A Description of an Instrumental Table to find the part proportional, devised by Mr Edward Wright
- 1617: Logarithmorum Chilias Prima
- 1619: Lucubrationes et Annotationes in opera posthuma J. Neperi
- 1620: An edition of the first six book of Euclid's The Elements
- 1622: A Treatise of the Northwest Passage to the South Sea, Through the Continent of Virginia and by Fretum Hudson (as by H.B.)
- 1624: Arithmetica Logarithmica
- 1633: Trigonometria Britannica (posthumous, added to by others)
Unpublished
- Commentaries on the Geometry of Peter Ramus
- Remarks on the Treatise of Longomontanus respecting the Quadrature of the Circle
