henry briggs

Henry BriggsBy: Kimi Perez & Chelsea Elwood

In 1577 Briggs attended St Johns College in Cambridge

In 1592 Briggs became an examiner and lecturer in mathematics

In 1596 Briggs became the first geometry professor at Gresham College in London

At first Briggs worked on navigation and he made a table for finding the height of the pole and the magnetic decline it gives

Briggs was against astronomy because he thought it was “a system of groundless conceits”

Briggs is best known for the publication of tables of logarithms

Briggs logarithmorum chilas prima was dated in 1617

Briggs wrote a book called Euclids Elements, which was published in 1620 in London

Briggs wrote another book, anthmetica logarithmic, and it included 30,000 logarithms from 1-20,00 and 90,000-100,000

Briggs composed a work of trigonometry but he didn’t get to finish it before his death so Gellibrand finished and published it

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