{"@context":["https://w3id.org/fdo/context/v1",{"schema":"https://schema.org/","prov":"http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#","fdo":"https://w3id.org/fdo/vocabulary/"}],"@id":"https://fdo.portal.mardi4nfdi.de/fdo/Q495607","@type":"DigitalObject","kernel":{"@id":"https://fdo.portal.mardi4nfdi.de/fdo/Q495607","digitalObjectType":"https://schema.org/ScholarlyArticle","primaryIdentifier":"mardi:Q495607","kernelVersion":"v1","immutable":true,"modified":"2026-01-22T09:47:53Z"},"profile":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"ScholarlyArticle","@id":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q495607","name":"Jost Bürgi's \\textit{Aritmetische und geometrische Progreß Tabulen} (1620). Edition and commentary. Translated from the German","headline":"Jost Bürgi's \\textit{Aritmetische und geometrische Progreß Tabulen} (1620). Edition and commentary. Translated from the German","description":"scientific article; zbMATH DE number 6482003","url":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q495607","datePublished":"2015-09-14","author":[{"@id":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q495606"}],"publisher":[{"@id":"https://portal.mardi4nfdi.de/entity/Q173499"}],"identifier":{"@type":"PropertyValue","propertyID":"doi","value":"10.1007/978-1-4939-3161-3","url":"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-3161-3"},"sameAs":["https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-3161-3"],"comment":"The book is devoted to the work of the Swiss mathematician Jost Bürgi (1552--1632) on logarithms, especially to his \\textit{Aritmetische und geometrische Progreß Tabulen} from 1620. It consists of four chapters. Chapter 1 contains a biography of Bürgi as well as information on his mathematical contributions. In Chapter 2, details of \\textit{Aritmetische und geometrische Progreß Tabulen} are given, in particular descriptions of the known copies of the work. In Chapter 3, one finds a complete facsimile of Bürgi's work, a corresponding transcription and an English translation with extensive commentaries. It should be added that there are given transcriptions of two manuscripts: the Graz manuscript and the Gdańsk manuscript -- this enables the reader to examine the differences between the two. The last chapter summarizes the author's perspective on two questions: who is the copyist of the Graz manuscript and what is the relationship between the Graz and Gdańsk manuscripts. There are also three appendices: (i) Bürgi's biography at a glance, (ii) Napier's argument and construction of logarithms and (iii) the tables of \\textit{Aritmetische und geometrische Progreß Tabulen}. The book is closed by the references and three indices (names, places and subjects).  The book was published in careful and nice way. It is a valuable contribution to the history of mathematics. It will be interesting not only for historians of mathematics but to all interested in the development of logarithms and calculating techniques."},"provenance":{"prov:generatedAtTime":"2026-01-22T09:47:53Z","prov:wasAttributedTo":"MaRDI Knowledge Graph"}}