Jost Bürgi's \textit{artificium} of 1586 in modern view, an ingenious algorithm for calculating tables of the sine function

DOI10.4171/EM/304zbMATH Open1378.01005MaRDI QIDQ509109FDOQ509109

Authors: Jörg Waldvogel 

Publication date: 8 February 2017

Published in: Elemente der Mathematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

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zbMATH Keywords

algorithmdifference methodKunstweg\textit{artificium}sine tables

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 15th and 16th centuries, Renaissance (01A40)

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