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	Henry Briggs
		Henry Briggs, (1556—1630), English mathematician, was born at Warley Wood[?], near Halifax, in Yorkshire.
		During these conferences the alteration proposed by Briggs was agreed upon; and on his return from his second visit to Edinburgh, in 1617 he accordingly published the first chiliad of his logarithms.
		Briggs died on January 16, 1630, and was buried in Merton College[?] chapel, Oxford.
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	Henry Briggs Biography \| World of Scientific Discovery
		Briggs was born in 1561 at Yorkshire, England.
		Briggs kept up-to-date on the latest developments in mathematics and was greatly enthused to learn of John Napier's discovery of logarithms through the publication of logarithmic tables in 1614.
		Briggs was amazed by their simplicity, although somewhat embarrassed that he had not come across the concept himself.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/henry-briggs-wsd (323 words)

	Henry Briggs - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Briggs was active in many areas, and his advice in astronomy, surveying, navigation, and other activities like mining was frequently sought.
		During these conferences the alteration proposed by Briggs was agreed upon; and on his return from his second visit to Edinburgh, in 1617, he published the first chiliad of his logarithms.
		Briggs was buried in the chapel of Merton College, Oxford.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Henry_Briggs (553 words)

	Henry Briggs Sr. of Surry County, Virginai (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		HENRY BRIGGS SR married MARGERY (--?--) at Surry, Virginia.
		HANNAH BRIGGS was born in 1692 at Surry, Virginia.
		(1) HENRY MYRICK was born in 1771 at Southampton, Virginia.
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	Henry Briggs - LoveToKnow 1911
		HENRY BRIGGS (1556-1630), English mathematician, was born at Warley Wood, near Halifax, in Yorkshire.
		In 1622 he published a small tract on the North-West Passage to the South Seas, through the Continent of Virginia and Hudson's Bay; and in 1624 his Arithmetica Logarithmica, in folio, a work containing the logarithms of thirty thousand natural numbers to fourteen places of figures besides the index.
		Briggs died on the 26th of January 1630, and was buried in Merton College chapel, Oxford.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Henry_Briggs (394 words)

	Henry Briggs Biography
		In his lectures at Gresham College he proposed the alteration of the scale of logarithms from the hyperbolic form which John Napier had given them, to that in which unity is assumed as the logarithm of the ratio of ten to one; and soon afterwards he wrote to the inventor on the subject.
		During these conferences the alteration proposed by Briggs was agreed upon; and on his return from his second visit to Edinburgh, in 1617, he published the first chiliad of his logarithms.
		Briggs was buried in the chapel of Merton College, Oxford.
	www.biographybase.com /biography/Briggs_Henry.html (441 words)

	Henry Briggs
		Briggs is especially known for his publication of tables of logarithms to the base 10, first Logarithmorum chilias prima, 1617, and later Arithmetica logarithmetica, 1624.
		Briggs was the first Gresham Professor of Geometry.
		Henry Briggs becomes Savilian Professor of Astronomy at Oxford.
	www.thocp.net /biographies/briggs_henry.html (1022 words)

	Briggs biography
		Briggs was born at Warley Wood (or Warleywood) in the parish of Halifax, Yorkshire.
		Briggs had suggested to Napier in a letter sent before their meeting that logs should be (in our terminology) to base 10 and Briggs had begun to construct such tables.
		Briggs accepted and after receiving high praise from Savile in his last lecture, took over the course continuing from the point that Savile had reached, namely the ninth proposition of Euclid's Elements.
	www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Biographies/Briggs.html (2328 words)

	Briggs
		The Linacre lectureship that Briggs was appointed to was therefore a medical lectureship but, in the same year of 1592, Briggs was also appointed as an examiner and lecturer in mathematics at Cambridge.
		Briggs was made a fellow of Merton College Oxford to enable him to hold the Savilian chair but he did not resign his position in Gresham College until a few months later, ending his 23 year employment with the Gresham College on 25 July 1620.
		Barrow, born the year the Briggs died, was appointed professor of geometry at Gresham College in 1662.
	www.educ.fc.ul.pt /icm/icm2003/icm14/Briggs.htm (2092 words)

	Henry Briggs
		Henry Briggs was an English mathematician who devoted most of his life to working on logarithms.
		Briggs was born in February of 1561 in Warley Wood, Halifax, in Yorkshire.
		It is probable that Briggs received some sort of scholarship to go to college, for his family would not have enough money to pay for him.
	members.tripod.com /twinkie_4/log_table.html (380 words)

	Briggs: Need for fast calculation
		He enlisted the aid of Henry Briggs (1561 - 1630), a mathematics professor at Gresham College in London, who traveled to Scotland in the summers of 1615 and 1616 to consult with Napier.
		Here, Briggs published a table of logarithms for the numbers 1 to 20,000 and from 90,000 to 100,000; the second edition of the work, published in 1628 (from which our selection comes), completed the table for the intermediate values 20,000 to 90,000.
		Briggs' common logarithms were based on powers of 10: the logarithm of a number corresponded to the power of 10 that gave the number.
	cerebro.xu.edu /math/math147/02f/briggs/briggsintro.html (964 words)

	The Galileo Project
		Briggs is especially known for his publication of tables of logarithms to the base 10, first Logarithmorum chilias prima, 1617, and later Arithmetica logarithmetica, 1624.
		Briggs also devoted some attention to astronomy and saw logarithms initially primarily as a device to aid in astronomical calculations.
		Briggs was consulted by the Virginia Company about the northwest passage, and from information about tides and currents he deduced the existence of such a passage.
	galileo.rice.edu /Catalog/NewFiles/briggs.html (626 words)

	Pane-Joyce Genealogy
		Henry "followed the art of shipbuilding, at first with his father and brothers at Hobart's Landing, and completed his apprenticeship with the Fosters at the Wanton Ship Yard, where he was working in 1810 when he reached his majority.
		Henry Briggs built in 1831 the bark Avon, 299 tons, of Boston, for Nathaniel Emmons, Thomas B. Wales, and others; in 1833 he was master carpenter of the brig Oak, 208 tons, for the same owners; and in 1836 the bark Verona, 238 tons, also for Emmons and Wales.
		The last vessel built by Henry Briggs was the brig Star in 1837, which was begun by him but was not completed when he died in December of that year.
	aleph0.clarku.edu /~djoyce/gen/report/rr15/rr15_303.html (836 words)

	Smart Computing Article - Briggs, Henry to Bushnell, Nolan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Henry Briggs was the man most responsible for making logarithms valuable to the scientific community.
		Briggs was elected a fellow of St. John's College in 1588 and became the Reader in Physic Lecture in 1592 (technically a medical lectureship).
		Briggs' interest in astronomy (and the extensive calculations required in its study) led to the publication to the publication of several works in the field.
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	The Henry W (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Henry was reported to be an early steamboat captain on the Hudson River, traveling between Albany and New York City.
		Henry's wife was said to be of Indian heritage from an Indian tribe in the Haverstraw, NY area.
		Hotaling was born in Athens, the daughter of Capt. Herman (Henry) Briggs, a Hudson River pilot, and Mary Minnerly.
	home.comcast.net /~bobmurgittroyd/henry_wbrigggs.htm (5779 words)

	Siver _ Johnson - pafg186 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		Joseph Francis BRIGGS was born on 14 Jul 1888 in Henry County, Missouri.
		William Henry BRIGGS [Parents] was born on 22 Oct 1876 in Henry County, Missouri.
		Julia Etta BRIGGS [Parents] was born on 03 Jun 1880 in Henry County, Missouri.
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	Briggs, Henry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Briggs was born in Halifax, Yorkshire, and studied at Cambridge, where he became a lecturer.
		He was professor of geometry at the newly established Gresham College, London, 1596-1620, and then became professor of geometry at Oxford.
		The logarithms of Briggs (and Napier) were logarithms of sines, a reflection of their interest in astronomy and navigation.
	www.cartage.org.lb /en/themes/Biographies/MainBiographies/B/Briggs/1.html (129 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online: BRIGGS, TX (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Briggs is at the intersection of U.S. Highway 183 and Farm Road 2657 in northeastern Burnet County.
		The land on which Briggs stands was purchased by Stephen Taylor from W. (Bill) Gann, who came to Texas from Missouri in 1855.
		In 1969 the Briggs school was consolidated with the Burnet district.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/view/BB/hnb77.html (516 words)

	THE BRIGGS BRANCH
		Ling Roth (1914) first mentions Rawdon Briggs when, in 1807, he was appointed to the Committee of Superintendants in connection with the winding up of the banking firm Bros.
		There is a fourth Briggs baptism in the register, that of a Thomas Briggs baptised on 3 Jul 1732, and in view of the date and of there being few Briggs entries, this may also be a child of John and Sarah.
		John Briggs was a merchant in the export trade of Hull, he was particularly connected with woollens and textiles produced in the active industrial areas centred around Wakefield, Halifax and Leeds, all places connected to the port by water transport, either river or canal.
	www.stowell.org.nz /surnames/briggs.html (3921 words)

	Briggs Henry: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
		Henry Adams was another lifelong friend whose letters are frequently quoted, and Major Higginsons interest...
		Asa Briggs was formerly the Provost of Worcester College Oxford and Chancellor...
		Decimal fractions were invented by Simon Stevin and logarithms by John Napier and Henry Briggs ; the beginnings of projective geometry were made by Gerard Desargues and Blaise Pascal ; number theory was greatly...
	www.questia.com /library/encyclopedia/briggs_henry.jsp (1572 words)

	Whiteside County IL Biographies
		OF Hopkins Twp., Whiteside Co IL Henry Briggs Sampson was born at Duxbury, Massachusetts, July 15, 1787, and was a descendant of Henry Sampson who came to Plymouth with the little band of Puritans in the Mayflower, in 1620.
		Henry R., born September 6, 1819; married Miss Emma Dickinson, September 28,1858; one child, Kate P. Julia G., born June 16, 1825; married Charles N. Russell, December 25, 1851; children, Annie F., Charles T., and John N., who died in infancy.
		Briggs Sampson was born in Massachusetts in 1787 and he was descended from Henry Sampson, who came to America on the Mayflower in 1620.
	genealogytrails.com /ill/whiteside/biosampsonhb.html (489 words)

	Henry Briggs - Encyclopedia.com
		Cyril Briggs and the African Blood Brotherhood: a radical counterpoint to progressivism.
		Briggs' Henry is first girl to win league title.
		Options aim at helping to smooth path for growth; Henry Briggs, of BKR Haines Watts, asks why, given the current economic climate, should a company float on any of the stock markets.(News)
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-BriggsH.html (534 words)

	Virginians: The Family History of Henry Briggs (-1686)
		I became the fourth husband of Mary Blunt Ford Washington and we were the parents of Henry, Charles, Samuel, George, and Mary Briggs.
		Henry Briggs made his will in Surry County 26 Sept. 1681 and was dead by 6 July 1686 when they proved it in court.
		To son Henry Briggs, 100 acres upon boiling spring continuing down Otterdam Swamp, a breadth of 100 acres.
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	The Galileo Project
		Henry Gellibrand was a graduate of Oxford and for a time a fellow of All Souls.
		It is said that Gellibrand settled in Oxford as a young man (by inference after his M.A.) and became there a friend of Henry Briggs.
		However, the letter from Trinity College, supporting his nomination to be Gresham Professor, spoke of his being satisfied with his small patrimony (I now have doubt that the patrimony was small) in order that the pursuit of preferment not interefere with his studies.
	galileo.rice.edu /Catalog/NewFiles/gelibrnd.html (401 words)

	William Harlowe Briggs
		William Harlowe Briggs (1876-1952) was the son of Judge Henry C. Briggs and Amanda R. Hebard Briggs.
		Briggs began his literary career there as a young man by publishing a small newspaper, the Praire Grove Leaflet, in 1889- 1890.
		Briggs was also the author of many plays, such as Behold thy Wife, produced in 1915 by Henry W. Savage, and a novel, Dakota in the Morning (1942).
	infoshare1.princeton.edu /libraries/firestone/rbsc/aids/briggs.html (591 words)

	Briggs, Henry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Briggs was born in Halifax, Yorkshire, and studied at Cambridge, where he became a lecturer.
		He was professor of geometry at the newly established Gresham College, London, 1596-1620, and then became professor of geometry at Oxford.
		The logarithms of Briggs (and Napier) were logarithms of sines, a reflection of their interest in astronomy and navigation.
	cartage.org.lb /en/themes/Biographies/MainBiographies/B/Briggs/1.html (129 words)

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		The papers relating to the Briggs family consist mainly of correspondence, which belonged to Charles Henry Briggs and one of his sons Charles James Briggs, and a number of miscellaneous documents among them the papers relating to the Australian Natives Association.
		The newspaper clippings in a bound volume are from the Brisbane Courier, the Telegraph and the Chronicle from December 1894 to April 1895 regarding the case against Rev. Charles Ogg brought by the Presbytery of the Anne St. Church.
		Others are photographs of Ernest Briggs and the staff of the station 4BK in the 1930s, and there is also one of Miss Margaret Ann Ogg at her house in Windsor.
	www.library.uq.edu.au /fryer/ms/uqfl210.doc (2074 words)

	Rebecca, Wife of Thomas Cornell
		The primary evidence which convicted Thomas (Jr.) was from John Briggs who testified of a vision he had in which Rebecca came to him and said, "I am your sister Cornell..." and told him how she died.
		Those who feel Rebecca was a Briggs believe her to have been the daughter of Henry (Henrie) Briggs of London and was baptized 25 Oct. 1600 at St. James Church, Clerkenwell.
		A second comment is that I have read somewhere that Henry Briggs's son John was at least 10 years different in age from the John Briggs in RI (older, I believe) and that he died in England.
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