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3 unusual facts about Henry Briggs


Edmund Wingate

In English as ‘Logarithmotechnia, or the Construction and Use of the Logarithmeticall Tables,’ London, 1635 (compiled from Henry Briggs).

Henry Briggs

Henry Shaw Briggs (Brigadier General), Union general in the American Civil War

John Thomas Briggs

He came from an old Norfolk family, a direct descendant of Dr. William Briggs, and, in a collateral line related to Professor Henry Briggs, was born in London on 4 June 1781.


Alexander John Thompson

This table, the Logarithmetica britannica gives the logarithms of all numbers from 1 to 100000 to 20 places and supersedes all previous tables of similar scope, in particular the tables of Henry Briggs, Adriaan Vlacq and Gaspard de Prony.


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