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Henry Briggs (1561-1630)

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Name: Henry Briggs

Date of birth: 1561

Date of death: 1630

Source of information: Special Collections

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Brigg, Henry, fl 16th century-19th century

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Anglo-French 1 1628 BRI: Arithmetique logaritmetique, ou, la construction et usage d'une table contenant les logarithmes de tous les nombres depuis l'unité jusques à 100000 : et d'une autre table en laquelle sont comprins les logarithmes des sinus, tangentes & secantes, de tous les degrez & minutes du quart du cercle, selon le raid de 10,00000,00000. parties. Par le moyen desquelles on resoult tres facilement les problemes arithmetiques & geometriques. Ces nombres premierement sont inventez par Iean Neper... mais Henry Brigs ... les a changé, & leur nature, origine, & usage illustré selon l'intention du dit Neper. La description est traduite du latin en françois, la premiere table augmentée, & la seconde composée par Adriaen Vlacq

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BC Sc q/WIN: Harmonicon coeleste : or, The cœlestiall harmony of the visible world. Conteining, an absolute and entire piece of astronomie. Wherein is succinctly handled the trigonometricall part, generally propounded, and particularly applyed in all questions tending to the diurnall motion. Especially respecting, and truly subservient to the main doctrine of the second motions of the luminaries and the other planets : together with their affections as eclipses &c. Grounded upon the most rationall hypothesis yet constituted, and compared with the best observations that are extant, especially those of Tycho Brahe, and other more modern observators. Fitted to the meridian of the most famous and ancient metropolis London, and principally intended for our English nation, and commended as usefull to all scholers, astronomers, astrologers, divines, physitians, Historiographers, polititians, and poets

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Strong Room Engl. fol. 1620/EUC: Eukleidou Stoicheiōn biblia 13. = Elementorum Euclidis libri tredecim : Secundum vetera exemplaria restituti

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Strong Room Engl. fol. 1631/BRI: Logarithmicall arithmetike : Or Tables of logarithmes for absolute numbers from an unite to 100000; as also for sines, tangentes and secantes for every minute of a quadrant: with a plaine description of their use in arithmetike, geometrie, geographie, astronomie, navigation, &c