"[I]t... seems... this method was brought to Napier by John Craig who obtained it from Wittich in Frankfurt at the end of the 1570s..."
— Jost Bürgi

January 1, 1970

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InventorsMathematicians from Switzerland
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Ref: , Robert S. Westman, The Wittich Connection: Conflict and Priority in Late Sixteenth-century Cosmology Transactions of the American Philosophical Society (1988) Vol. 78, Part 7, pp. 11–12. Held at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge.