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Modifications to Burgi’s Book
I made a couple changes to Burgi’s tables to make this video easier to follow. Burgi’s red numbers are scaled by a factor of ten - I removed this in some locations - also his tables didn’t include any decimal places - this notation had not been developed yet. There are no decimal places in his original work - I added the decimal points in some locations for clarity.
Book Recommendation
Sections of this video are based on a terrific book by Klaus Truemper - despite it’s terrible cover, it’s a great read with an original viewpoint, and we only covered a small portion here - you can buy a copy on my amazon storefront here: https://amzn.to/3u2Rt7x
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References
The Daring Invention of Logarithm Tables - Klaus Truemper
The History of Mathematical Tables: From Sumer to Spreadsheets - Martin Campbell-Kelly
Description of the Wonderful Canon of Logarithms - John Napier
Jost Bürgi's Aritmetische und Geometrische Progreß Tabulen - Kathleen Clark
Arithmetic and Geometric Progression Tables - Jost Burgi 1620