Dear colleagues:<div><br></div><div>The Swiss clockmaker Jost Bürgi was a famous instrument maker, mathematician and astronomer.<div>He discovered the logarithms before John Napier but published them later.</div><div>He collaborated with Johannes Kepler.</div><div><br></div><div>Perhaps of interest:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/277141-jost-brgi-and-the-discovery-of-logarithms/fulltext">Jost Bürgi and the Discovery of Logarithms | blog@CACM | Communications of the ACM</a></div><div><br></div><div>Best wishes,</div><div>Herbert Bruderer</div><div><br></div><div><br><div><br></div><div><br><p></p><style>p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {
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