| Show logarithms 1 ehms of ef ki W i aff german armull origin ri 0 V scientist denies computation i I 1 was devised i by scotsman as commonly believed WORKED OUT BY watchmaker lord napier a scottish nobleman has hitherto been given the credit of having originated the logarithmic tables cassell germany logarithms were originally devised by jobst buerge a 1 german watchmaker in tho the employ of landgrave Willi williaim tim IV of and not by tho scotsman lord napier as commonly I 1 believed according to statements rondo made by doctor breithaupt a prominent cassel scientist addressing a meeting liere of the hessian historical association doctor assertions were made in the course of an address on th he 0 life of william IV or william the wise who lie he described ns as one of tile tho most renowned of royal astronomers william Willin tri lived during the middle of the sixteenth century and founded the elder line of the house of hesse known is alesse cassol cassel the speaker discussed alco williams chief assistant eherhard eberhard baldewein who was a tallor tailor in marburg by profession but won high favor with the landgrave because of his clever and inventive mind smith makes wonder clock william IV the speaker related erected a workshop in which lie em cm aloyed several hand laborers one of labont ishom was a smith whose handiwork still occasions general amazement I 1 baldewein also showed exceptional aptitude lit in carrying out and improving i williams designs among tits hi creations still in exl existence Is I 1 a large planetary apparatus the soca so ca called ailed astronomical clock which belongs to the provincial museum of cassel athe the landgrave land gravo tile the first astronomer in or to introduce time as an element capable of observation doctor breit haupt declared A nuremberg clockmaker made him a clock showing seconds and enlarged upon it in such a way that tho the landgrave could simultaneously observe tho the stars and listen to tho the clocks ticking of seconds 1 in I tile celestial globe it was wan thought for n long time that the landgrave nl al ready possessed a n pendulum clock gives credit to german then ho he took into his employ a watchmaker jobst bueral justus Byr yr glus lus and tills this man it was who 11 while in ili cassel originated logarithms hitherto it tills hus been understood that tile the scottish lord napier batron of ton who issued tables lit in edinburg in 1014 was the creator of logarithms and that bueral acquired this distinction tit at the same time with out knowing of work doctor declared that johann kepler founder of modern astronomy tr onomy who was born in berg in 1671 1571 and became renowned as father of the ho Kep lorlan planetary laws had given buergi tile tho credit for oriel tinting logarithms in one of his published works was horn born in and was for a almo attached to tho the imperial court as and of 0 celestial globes ho he died hero here in 1632 1 |
