| 书目名称 | Jost Bürgi‘s Aritmetische und Geometrische Progreß Tabulen (1620) |
| 副标题 | Edition and Commenta |
| 编辑 | Kathleen Clark |
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| 概述 | Presents the first-ever English translation of Jost Bürgi‘s Arithmetische und Geometrische Progreß Tabulen.Includes full-color, high-resolution scans of 23 pages of text and 58 tables from an original |
| 丛书名称 | Science Networks. Historical Studies |
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| 描述 | .This monograph presents a groundbreaking scholarly treatment of the German mathematician Jost Bürgi’s original work on logarithms, Arithmetische und Geometrische Progreß Tabulen. It provides the first-ever 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 the 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..The book begins with a brief biography of Bürgi to familiarize readers with his life and work, as well as to offer an historical context in which to explore his contributions. The second chapter then describes the extant copies of the Arithmetische und Geometrische Progreß Tabulen, with a detailed description of the copy that is the focus of this book, the 1620 “Graz manuscript”. A complete facsimile of the text is included in the next chapter, along with a corresponding transcription and an English translation; a transcription of a second version of the manuscript (the “Gdansk manuscript”) is included alongside that of the Gr |
| 出版日期 | Book 2015 |
| 关键词 | 17th-century mathematics; Jost Bürgi; geometric sequence; history of mathematics; logarithms |
| 版次 | 1 |
| doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-3161-3 |
| isbn_softcover | 978-1-4939-7991-2 |
| isbn_ebook | 978-1-4939-3161-3Series ISSN 1421-6329 Series E-ISSN 2296-6080 |
| issn_series | 1421-6329 |
| copyright | Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015 |
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