Author:Henry Briggs
Works
[edit]- A Table to find the Height of the Pole, the Magnetical Declination being given (London, 1602, 4to)
- "Tables for the Improvement of Navigation", printed in the second edition of Edward Wright's treatise entitled Certain Errors in Navigation detected and corrected (London, 1610, 4to)
- A Description of an Instrumental Table to find the part proportional, devised by Mr Edward Wright (London, 1616 and 1618, 12rno)
- Logarithmorum Chilias prima (London, 1617, 8vo)
- Lucubrationes et Annotationes in opera posthuma J. Neperi (Edinburgh, 1619, 4to)
- Remarks on the Foregoing Appendix
(1889) translated by William Rae Macdonald - Notes on Trigonometrical Propositions (1889) translated by William Rae Macdonald
- Remarks on the Foregoing Appendix
- Euclidis Elementorum VI. libri priores (London, 1620. folio)
- A Treatise on the North-West Passage to the South Sea (London, 1622, 4to), reprinted in Samuel Purchas's Pilgrims, vol. iii. p. 852
- Arithmetica Logarithmica (London, 1624, folio)
- Trigonometria Britannica (Goudae, 1633, folio)
- two Letters to Archbishop James Usher
- Mathematica ab Antiquis minus cognita.
Works about Briggs
[edit]- "Briggs, Henry," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1929, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.
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