Henry Briggs By: Kimi Perez & Chelsea Elwood
Feb 15, 2016
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