See also: Briggs

Henry Briggs (1556 - 1630) is a Mathématicien English. He is the author of work of Géométrie.

Born with Warley-Wood (York), he was professor of geometry to the college of Gresham to London then occupied the pulpit founded by Henry Savile with Oxford. He improved the invention of the Logarithme S which had just been made by John Napier, and made a great number of work useful for astronomy and the geography.

One owes him Arithmetica logarithmica , London, 1624, work of an immense work, which is the base of the tables of logarithms published since: he takes there for base of his calculations number 10.

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