Bürgi’s sexagesimal multiplication table inhis Fundamentum Astronomiæ

Denis Roegel

13 December 2015

Bürgi’s Fundamentum Astronomiæ manuscript is kept at the BibliotekaUniwersytecka Wrocław, under call number IV Qu 38a. The sexagesimalmultiplication table given on pages 9v-15r was provided by Dieter Launertand is included in LOCOMAT (http://locomat.loria.fr) with per-mission.

For more on these tables, see Menso Folkerts, Dieter Launert, and An-dreas Thom, “Jost Bürgi’s Method for Calculating Sines”, Historia Mathe-matica (to appear, a preprint is available on arXiv under id 1510.03180v1).

Bürgi’s entire manuscript is available at

http://www.bibliotekacyfrowa.pl/dlibra/doccontent?id=45624

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