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    Jost Bürgi (also Joost, Jobst; Latinized surname Burgius or Byrgius; 28 February 1552 – 31 January 1632), active primarily at the courts in Kassel and...
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  • pronounced [ˈjust]. Joost Berman, Dutch judge and poet Joos van Cleve, Netherlandish painter Jan Joest van Kalkar, Netherlandish painter Joost Bürgi, Swiss clockmaker...
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    publication (1614) was known by the time Bürgi published at the behest of Johannes Kepler. We know that Bürgi had some way of simplifying calculations...
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  • included the mathematicians Ibn Yunis, Johannes Werner, Paul Wittich, Joost Bürgi, Christopher Clavius, and François Viète. Wittich, Ibn Yunis, and Clavius...
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    Kingdom John Tolson, United Kingdom John Whitehurst, United Kingdom Joost Bürgi, Switzerland Joseph Knibb, United Kingdom Konstantin Chaykin, Russia...
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    churchman, papal diplomat and writer on art theory (b. 1570) January 31 – Joost Bürgi, Swiss clockmaker and mathematician (b. 1552) February 7 – Margherita...
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    and by marriage Landgravine of Hesse-Darmstadt (d. 1587) February 28 – Joost Bürgi, Swiss clockmaker and mathematician (d. 1632) March 1 – Anna of Cleves...
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  • 1964 Richard E. Byrd (1888–1957) WGPSN Byrgius 24°44′S 65°23′W / 24.73°S 65.38°W / -24.73; -65.38 (Byrgius) 84.46 1935 Joost Bürgi (1552–1632) WGPSN...
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  • (Germany, 1612). 1614: Logarithms – John Napier (Scotland, 1614) and Joost Bürgi (Switzerland, 1618). Analytic geometry – René Descartes, Pierre de Fermat...
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  • Catherine Wolfe Bruce Giordano Bruno Henri Buisson Johann Tobias Bürg Joost Bürgi Sherburne Wesley Burnham Richard Evelyn Byrd Cai Lun Santiago Ramón y...
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