Henry Briggs is French English who live in the years 1562 and died in the year 1630. He is a change Napier's logarithms to the public / Briggesian logarithm.During his life, he produced several works, among others:
1.Logarithmorum Chilias Prima
Logarithmorum Chilias Prima book is the result Henry Briggs works in 1617. This book describes a brief account of logarithm tables and long first round in 1000 calculated to 14 decimal places. This book is to change Napier's logarithms to the Briggesian logarithm with the results of the discussions conducted by Henry Briggs and John Napier in 1616.
2.Trigonometria Britannica
Trigonometria Britannica is a book that contains a table of logarithms Sines and tangents hundred for each part of the degree to fourteen decimal places, with a table of natural Sines to fifteen places, and tangents and secants for the same to ten places; book is printed in Gouda in 1631 and published in 1633.
study of literature:http://en.wikipedia.com/henry_briggs
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