A tentative reconstruction of Bürgi’s sine table at 2'' intervals (ca. 1600)

Denis Roegel (1)

1 MOSEL - Proof-oriented development of computer-based systems

Jost Bürgi (1552-1632) may have computed a table of sines at 2'' intervals. In order to get an idea of such a table, we have proposed a reconstruction, inspired by the 1' table found in a recently rediscovered manuscript by Bürgi.

Mots clés: Jost Bürgi; table of sines

Domaines: Histoire et perspectives sur les mathématiques [math.HO]

Denis Roegel. A tentative reconstruction of Bürgi’s sine table at 2'' intervals (ca. 1600). 2016. ⟨hal-01316360⟩