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Briggs is a English mathematician. He is the author of the first table of decimal logarithms, published in 1617, of the first extensive table of decimal logarithms of numbers (1624), and of the first extensive table of decimal logarithms of trigonometric functions (1633).
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Roegel, D. (2017). Briggs, Henry. In: Sgarbi, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02848-4_464-1
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