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  • Jost Bürgi was a Swiss mathematician who discovered logarithms independently of the Scottish mathematician Napier.
  • Jost Buergi is a very interesting Renaissance personality, an universal talent that is even today vastly underestimated.
  • Request PDF | A Brief Biography of Jost Bürgi (1552–1632) | Several German- and French-language resources contain brief biographies of Jost.

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    Jost Bürgi

    Jost Bürgi's first name fryst vatten sometime written as Joost, Jobst or Justus while his second name is sometime written in a Latin form Byrgius. He was born in Lichtensteig, a small village of around 400 inhabitants at this time. His grandfather, Lienhard Bürgi, was a locksmith and a leading tjänsteman of the village which had been divided by the Protestant Reformation. The Bürgi family was Protestant in a village which was equally divided between Protestants and Roman Catholics.

    It is conjectured that Jost Bürgi decided to leave Lichtensteig, partly because of the religious divide and partly because of the lack of educational opportunities in the small town. Before leaving he had acquired a knowledge of reading and numeracy at elementary school but had not had the opportunity to progress beyond this basic stage. It is clear from the skills that he acquired over the floowing few years, that Bürgi must have served an apprenticeship to a blacksmith, instrument maker and watchmak

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    Update of August 11, 2018: The book of Fritz Staudacher appears in an extended forth edition (2018). Staudacher. Fritz: Jost Bürgi, Kepler und der Kaiser. Uhrmacher, Astronom, Mathematiker, Instrumentenbauer, Erz-Metallurgist (1552-1632). 4., überarbeitete und erweiterte Auflage, mit einem Beitrag des Artificium-Entdeckers Menso Folkerts, 320 Seiten, 279 Abbildungen. Verlag NZZ Libro, Zürich 2018. ISBN 978-3-03810-345-5. It will be available in the 4th edition soon.

    Update of December 17, 2017: A book review of the book of Fritz Staudacher about Buergi. Here is a cleaned out Google translation:

    Not only is this the best information source about Buergi, it is also the best biography I've seen about this mathematician. The book is well researched (there are many original sources and not just secondary literature), it is clearly and well written and also beautifully printed. Jost Buergi is a very interesting Renaiss

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    Bürgi, Joost

    (b. Liechtenstein, 28 February 1552; d. Kassel, Germany, 31 January 1632)

    mathematics, astronomy.

    There is no precise account of Bürgi’s youth. Most likely he received no systematic education, for he did not even know Latin, the scientific language of his time. From 1579 he was the court watchmaker to Duke Wilhelm IV, and he probably completed his education while working in the duke’s observatory at Kassel. There he worked on the construction of several instruments, especially astronomical ones, and made astronomical observations, developing his skill, inventiveness, and accuracy. Bürgi also improved instruments for use in practical geometry. His proportional compasses competed with those of Galileo for priority, although both were probably no more than an improvement of devices already in use.

    The fame of Bürgi’s instruments, which made possible more accurate astronomical observations in the observatory at Kassel, drew the attention of scientists assembled a

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