Vlacq

Adriaan Vlacq

Born: 1600 in Gouda, Netherlands
Died: 1667 in The Hague, Netherlands

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Vlacq published a table of Briggs logarithms from 1 to 100,000 to 10 decimal places in Arithmetica logarithmica in 1628. Briggs' own tables were only 1 to 20,000 and 90,000 to 100,000 so Vlacq added 70,000 values. Vlacq also constructed log trigonometric tables.

Vlacq also published many mathematical works by other authors including Briggs himself.

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References:

  1. Dictionary of Scientific Biography
  2. C de Waard, Vlacq (Adriaan), Nieuw nederlandsch biographisch woordenboek 11 (1912), 1503-1506. 
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