Talk:Jost Bürgi

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Jost Bürgi

I believe it violates NPOV to state that Jost Bürgi invented logarithms "first". Since he did not publish until four years *after* John Napier, by which time Napier's work was widely known, de facto Bürgi does not deserve credit for being "first". In addition, it is not clear that Bürgi was first in any sense, since Napier worked on his version for 20 years before publishing. Is there documentary evidence that Bürgi started before 1594?

The neutral point of view is that Bürgi *independently* developed logarithms.

I have edited both the logarithm and Jost Bürgi Wiki articles to reflect this, giving Bürgi credit for independently inventing logarthms, but not for being first.

Nwbeeson 18:28, 4 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I have edited the opening paragraphs a bit. There was a long quote with two different sources on it, so I figured it must not actually be a quote. If it was, or part of it was, someone who can verify please fix it. Dicklyon 22:58, 4 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]
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