Briggs, H.

Japanese: Briggs,H.(英語表記)BriggsH
Briggs, H.

...Nicole Oresme, who became Bishop of Lisieux, was a cutting-edge thinker at the time when he graphed temperature changes and introduced fractional exponents. Logarithms were discovered in the mid-16th century by the English J. Napier and Henry Briggs (1556-1631), and Briggs also assisted Kepler in his calculations, which will be discussed later. In 13th-century Italy, the Renaissance was sparked by Dante and others, and the Renaissance in art reached its peak in the 15th and 16th centuries. ...

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…リジューの司教となったニコル・オレームNicole Oresmeが温度の変化をグラフに表したり,分数指数を導入したりしたのは,当時としては先端的な発想であった。対数が発見されたのは16世紀の中葉になってからイギリスのJ.ネーピアやブリッグスHenry Briggs(1556‐1631)によるもので,ブリッグスは後述するケプラーの計算にも協力した。 13世紀のイタリアには,ダンテらによってルネサンスの機運が興り,美術上のルネサンスは15~16世紀に最盛期を迎える。…

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