1. Henry Briggs Henry Briggs. of Geom @ Oxford) 1619 Henry Briggs becomes Savilian Professor ofAstronomy at Oxford. Sir William Harvey (15781657), in lectures at St. http://www.thocp.net/biographies/briggs_henry.html

Henry Briggs F eb 1561 Worley Wood, Yorkshire, England 26 Jan 1630 Oxford, England Papers Hardware Software Keywords Briggs logarithms. Biography Father Occupation: Unknown Thomas Smith, writing early in the 18th century, said that Briggs' parents were "humble of class and rather slender of means." Humble of class could mean too many things to guess, but I take the slender means to state unmistakably that they were poor. Smith indicates that Briggs could not have attended Cambridge without financial assistance from his college. Education Schooling: Cambridge, M.A. Local grammar school. St. John's College, Cambridge, 1577-85; B.A., 1581; M.A., 1585. Religion Affiliation: Calvinist He is described in one fairly contemporary source as a severe Presbyterian, and he was active in the Puritan cause while he was at Cambridge. Scientific Disciplines Primary: Mathematics Subordinate: Astronomy, Navigation, Geography Briggs is especially known for his publication of tables of logarithms to the base 10, first Logarithmorum chilias prima, 1617, and later Arithmetica logarithmetica, 1624.

2. Briggs Henry Briggs. Born Feb 1561 in Henry Briggs was the man most responsiblefor scientists' acceptance of logarithms. He is of great http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Briggs.html

Henry Briggs Born: Feb 1561 in Warleywood, Yorkshire, England Died: 26 Jan 1630 in Oxford, England Show birthplace location Previous (Chronologically) Next Biographies Index Previous (Alphabetically) Next Main index Henry Briggs was the man most responsible for scientists' acceptance of logarithms. He is of great importance in the development of mathematics but, as Hill writes in [8]:- ... significant though Briggs was as a mathematician in his own right, his greatest importance was as a contact and public relations man. Briggs was born at Warley Wood (or Warleywood) in the parish of Halifax, Yorkshire. His birth is recorded in the Halifax parish register as February 1561 yet this information contradicts a notice by J Mede written at Christ's College Cambridge on 6 February 1630, a few days after Briggs died, which states (see for example [1]):- Mr Henry Briggs of Oxford, the great mathematician, is lately dead, at years of age. If Mede were correct then Briggs would have been born in 1556, but it seem highly unlikely that he is correct, for there seems no possible reason to think that the Halifax parish records could be wrong. We know little of Briggs's family but there is a history of Norfolk, by Blomefield, which states that Briggs's family were originally from Salle in that county. Blomefield is known to be wrong in a number of other such claims so not too much weight should be put on this statement, although, on the other hand, there is some evidence that other members of Briggs's family did have Norfolk connections. In fact Richard Briggs, who was Henry Briggs's brother, became headmaster of a school in Norfolk. Richard Briggs had important friends such as Ben Jonson, the dramatist, poet, and literary critic and a letter from Ben Jonson to Richard Briggs still exists.

3. BRIGGS Henry briggs henry (15561631). Matemático inglés, nacido en Warley Wood y fallecido en Oxford. http://almez.cnice.mecd.es/~agos0000/Briggs.html

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4. BRIGGS Henry Translate this page briggs henry (1556-1631). Matemático inglés, nacido en Warley Woody fallecido en Oxford. Se conoce principalmente a Briggs por http://almez.pntic.mec.es/~agos0000/Briggs.html

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5. Znani I Nieznani - Matematycy-Briggs Henry Bourbaki Nicolas. briggs henry. Brozek Jan (Broscius Joannes). Brudzewski Wojciech.Buniakowski Wiktor. briggs henry (1561 631) - matematyk angielski. http://www.leksykony.pl/znani/matematycy/mb223.html

Strona g³ówna Kategorie Aktorzy Filozofowie Królowie Malarze ... Bohaterowie Matematycy A B C D ... Buniakowski Wiktor Briggs Henry (1561 - 631) - matematyk angielski. U³o¿y³ i opublikowa³ (1617) pierwsze tablice warto¶ci logarytmów przy podstawie 10 dla liczb od l do 1000. W 1624 wyda³ czternastocyfrowe tablice warto¶ci logarytmów liczb od l do 20 000 i od 90 000 do 100 000. W wydanych po¶miertnie (1633) tablicach warto¶ci logarytmów funkcji trygonometrycznych Briggs podzieli³ stopieñ na 100 minut, a minutê na 100 sekund.

6. Briggs Translate this page briggs henry anglais, 1561-1630 . Co-inventeur, avec son ami JohnNapier (Neper), des logarithmes décimaux. Briggs complétera http://www.sciences-en-ligne.com/momo/chronomath/chrono1/Briggs.html

BRIGGS Henry anglais, 1561-1630 Co-inventeur, avec son ami John Napier ( Neper -n CO ordiante R otation D Igital C on parle parfois du logarithme de Briggs est le logarithme de base e, mais cette appellation est impropre. Harriot

7. Ely, Isaac Descendants Of Husband briggs henry Wood See Notes Birth 25 Mar 1901 Center, Ralls County,Missouri Marriage 8 Sep 1928 COWDEN Martha Ruth Death 9 Sep 1990 Center http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~elymocharles/fam00262.html

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8. Pictures Of Henry Shaw Briggs Henry Shaw Briggs. BACK. http://www.generalsandbrevets.com/ngb/briggs.htm

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9. Briggs, Henry Catalog of the Scientific Community briggs, henry. DM Hallowes, henry briggs,Mathematician, Transactions of the Halifax Antequarian Society (1962), pp. http://es.rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Galileo/Catalog/Files/briggs.html

Catalog of the Scientific Community Briggs, Henry Note: the creators of the Galileo Project and this catalogue cannot answer email on genealogical questions. 1. Dates Born: Worley Wood, Yorkshire, Feb. 1561 Baptized on 23 Feb. 1561. Died: Oxford, 26 Jan. 1630. Dateinfo: Dates Certain Lifespan: 2. Father Occupation: Unknown Thomas Smith, writing early in the 18th century, said that Briggs' parents were "humble of class and rather slender of means." Humble of class could mean too many things to guess, but I take the slender means to state unmistakably that they were poor. Smith indicates that Briggs could not have attended Cambridge without financial assistance from his college. 3. Nationality Birth: England Career: England Death: England 4. Education Schooling: Cambridge, M.A. Local grammar school. St. John's College, Cambridge, 1577-85; B.A., 1581; M.A., 1585. 5. Religion Affiliation: Calvinist He is described in one fairly contemporary source as a severe Presbyterian, and he was active in the Puritan cause while he was at Cambridge. 6. Scientific Disciplines

10. Henry Perronet Briggs Online Derek and Joan briggs for Bichon Frise, Sussex and Kent, England A Very Warm Welcome from Derek Joan briggs. with Bichon Frisé* Abigail, henry, Chas and Dylan. http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/briggs_henry_perronet.html

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11. Logaritmer - Henry Briggs Efter at John Napier havde indført den første logaritme, kom englænderen henry briggs til med titalslogaritmen http://www.matematiksider.dk/briggs.html

Henry Briggs og titalslogaritmen Som omtalt andetsteds på min hjemmeside regner man skotten John Napier (1550 - 1617) for at være den første, som indførte logaritmerne. Titalslogaritmen af i dag skyldes imidlertid en anden person, nemlig den engelske matematiker Henry Briggs (1561 - 1630), der var professor på Gresham College i London. Da Briggs hørte om Napiers opdagelser så han straks logaritmernes anvendelighed til at afhjælpe det tunge beregningsarbejde inden for navigation. Flåden på den tid havde en enorm betydning og var selve nøglen til Englands sikkerhed tænk på englændernes søslag med den spanske armada i 1588! Briggs begejstring for logaritmerne kan umiddelbart aflæses af følgende berømte citat fra en af hans breve til ærkebiskop Usher, dateret Gresham House, 10. marts 1615: Neper, lord of Markinston, hath set my head and hands a work with his new and admirable logarithms. I hope to see him this summer, if it please God, for I never saw book, which pleased me better and made me more wonder. Napiers navn er stavet lidt specielt her, hvilket skyldes, at der på dette tidspunkt ikke fandtes nogen retskrivningsstandard i England. Det lykkedes for Briggs at få et møde i stand med Napier, og det fandt sted i 1615. Under besøget diskuterede de to herrer at omdefinere Napiers "logaritme", og de blev enige om, at det var mest hensigtsmæssigt, hvis logaritmen opfyldte

12. Briggs, George Henry - Bright Sparcs Biographical Entry Encyclopædia Britannica. briggs, henry. Encyclopædia Britannica Article http://www.asap.unimelb.edu.au/bsparcs/biogs/P000261b.htm

Bright Sparcs Biographical entry Home Browse Search Previous ... Next Briggs, George Henry (1893 - 1987) Online Sources Archival/Heritage Sources Published Sources Physicist Born: 23 March 1893 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Died: 24 July 1987. Briggs was Head of the Physics Section, CSIR National Standards Laboratories, Sydney 1939-45 and then Chief of the Division of Physics, CSIR/O 1945-58. His chief research interests were radioactivity, the precise measurement of certain physical constants and the construction of highly stable standards of electrical resistance. Career Highlights Born Sydney, 23 March 1893. Died 24 July 1987. Educated Universities of Sydney (BSc 1916, DSc 1937) and Cambridge (PhD 1926). Demonstrator and lecturer in physics, University of Sydney 1918-27, assistant professor of physics 1928-39, Officer-in-charge, Physics Section, National Standards Laboratory, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) 1939-45, Chief, Division of Physics, CSIR/O (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization) 1945-58, Scientific Advisor to the Australian representative, Atomic Energy Commission, United Nations, New York 1946-47. President, Australian branch, Institute of Physics 1950-52. Proposed the formation of an independent Australian Institute of Physics and made an honorary fellow on its formation in 1962. Online Sources Published Sources 'Briggs, George Henry', in

13. Gellibrand, Henry It is said that Gellibrand settled in Oxford as a young man (by inferenceafter his MA) and became there a friend of henry briggs. http://es.rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Galileo/Catalog/Files/gelibrnd.html

Catalog of the Scientific Community Gellibrand, Henry Note: the creators of the Galileo Project and this catalogue cannot answer email on genealogical questions. 1. Dates Born: London, 17 Nov. 1597 Died: London, 16 Feb. 1636 Dateinfo: Dates Certain Lifespan: 2. Father Occupation: Physician Henry Gellibrand was a graduate of Oxford and for a time a fellow of All Souls. After 1602 he was a physician in Maidstone, Kent. The father died in 1615. I always assume that physicians were affluent at least. In fact the father left a considerable estate; our Henry was his sole heir. However, a reference below to Henry's small patrimony (which could have been in error, to be sure) leads me to list the family circumstances merely as affluent. It is surely relevant that Gellibrand entered Oxford as a commoner. 3. Nationality Birth: English Career: English Death: English 4. Education Schooling: Oxford, M.A. Oxford University, Trinity College, 1615-23. B.A., 1619. M.A., 1623. 5. Religion Affiliation: Calvinist Gellibrand was in holy orders; he held a curacy in Kent before 1623. In 1631, when he published an almanac with definite Puritan hues, Laud attempted to prosecute him. 6. Scientific Disciplines

14. Briggs Biography of henry briggs (15611630) henry briggs. Born Feb 1561 in Warleywood, Yorkshire, England http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Briggs.html

Henry Briggs Born: Feb 1561 in Warleywood, Yorkshire, England Died: 26 Jan 1630 in Oxford, England Show birthplace location Previous (Chronologically) Next Biographies Index Previous (Alphabetically) Next Main index Henry Briggs was the man most responsible for scientists' acceptance of logarithms. He is of great importance in the development of mathematics but, as Hill writes in [8]:- ... significant though Briggs was as a mathematician in his own right, his greatest importance was as a contact and public relations man. Briggs was born at Warley Wood (or Warleywood) in the parish of Halifax, Yorkshire. His birth is recorded in the Halifax parish register as February 1561 yet this information contradicts a notice by J Mede written at Christ's College Cambridge on 6 February 1630, a few days after Briggs died, which states (see for example [1]):- Mr Henry Briggs of Oxford, the great mathematician, is lately dead, at years of age. If Mede were correct then Briggs would have been born in 1556, but it seem highly unlikely that he is correct, for there seems no possible reason to think that the Halifax parish records could be wrong. We know little of Briggs's family but there is a history of Norfolk, by Blomefield, which states that Briggs's family were originally from Salle in that county. Blomefield is known to be wrong in a number of other such claims so not too much weight should be put on this statement, although, on the other hand, there is some evidence that other members of Briggs's family did have Norfolk connections. In fact Richard Briggs, who was Henry Briggs's brother, became headmaster of a school in Norfolk. Richard Briggs had important friends such as Ben Jonson, the dramatist, poet, and literary critic and a letter from Ben Jonson to Richard Briggs still exists.

15. References For Briggs References for henry briggs. Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (NewYork 19701990). Articles J Abellan, henry briggs (Spanish), Gaceta Mat. http://www-gap.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/References/Briggs.html

References for Henry Briggs Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). Biography in Encyclopaedia Britannica. Books: A J Thompson, Logarithmetica Britannica (Cambridge, 1952). Articles: J Abellan, Henry Briggs (Spanish), Gaceta Mat. Janus G A Gibson, Napier and the invention of logarithms, in E M Horsburgh (ed.), Napier Tercentenary Celebration : Handbook of the exhibition (Edinburgh, 1914), 1-16. D M Hallowes, Henry Briggs, Mathematician, Transactions of the Halifax Antiquarian Society C Hill, Intellectual origins of the English revolution (Oxford, 1965), 38. C Hutton, Mathematical tables (london, 1811), 33-37. J Ward, The lives of the professors of Gresham College (London, 1740), 120-129. D T Whiteside, Patterns of mathematical thought in the later seventeenth century, Arch. Hist. Exact Sci. T Whittaker, Henry Briggs, Dictionary of National Biography Vol VI (London, 1886), 326-327. Main index Birthplace Maps Biographies Index History Topics ... Anniversaries for the year JOC/EFR July 1999 School of Mathematics and Statistics University of St Andrews, Scotland

16. Briggs, Henry briggs, henry (15611630). briggs was born in Yorkshire, England andattended St. John's College in Cambridge. He graduated in 1581 http://occawlonline.pearsoned.com/bookbind/pubbooks/thomas_awl/chapter1/medialib

Briggs, Henry (15611630) Briggs was born in Yorkshire, England and attended St. John's College in Cambridge. He graduated in 1581 and 1585 and became a lecturer of mathematics in 1592. In 1596 Briggs became the first professor of geometry at Gresham College in London. By 1615 he was completely engaged in the study, calculation, and teaching of logarithms. He met with Napier and proposed improvements to the logarithmic system developed by Napier. Briggs helped publish some of Napier's work and wrote Logarithmorum chilias prima in 1617. Briggs's major work was Arithmetica logarithmica in 1624. These tables of logarithms were useful tools for those performing large calculations. Briggs spent several years at Merton College in Oxford. Major publications: Logarithmorum chilias prima; Arithmetica logarithmica

17. Briggs, Henry encyclopediaEncyclopedia briggs, henry. briggs, henry, 1561–1630,English mathematician. He was the first professor of geometry http://www.infoplease.com/ce5/CE007480.html

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18. Briggs, Henry. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001 The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001. briggs, henry. 1561–1630,English mathematician. He was the first professor of http://www.bartleby.com/65/br/BriggsH.html

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19. Briggs, Henry. The American Heritage® Dictionary Of The English Language: Fourt briggs, henry. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language FourthEdition. 2000. 2000. briggs, henry. PRONUNCIATION br gz. DATES 1561–1630. http://www.bartleby.com/61/25/B0482500.html

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