Author:Henry Briggs

Works

 * A Table to find the Height of the Pole, the Magnetical Declination being given (London, 1602, 4to)
 * "Tables for the Improvement of Navigation", printed in the second edition of Edward Wright's treatise entitled Certain Errors in Navigation detected and corrected (London, 1610, 4to)
 * A Description of an Instrumental Table to find the part proportional, devised by Mr Edward Wright (London, 1616 and 1618, 12rno)
 * Logarithmorum Chilias prima (London, 1617, 8vo)
 * Lucubrationes et Annotationes in opera posthuma J. Neperi (Edinburgh, 1619, 4to)
 * Remarks on the Foregoing Appendix (1889) translated by William Rae Macdonald
 * Notes on Trigonometrical Propositions (1889) translated by William Rae Macdonald
 * Euclidis Elementorum VI. libri priores (London, 1620. folio)
 * A Treatise on the North-West Passage to the South Sea (London, 1622, 4to), reprinted in Samuel Purchas's Pilgrims, vol. iii. p. 852
 * Arithmetica Logarithmica (London, 1624, folio)
 * Trigonometria Britannica (Goudae, 1633, folio)
 * two Letters to Archbishop James Usher
 * Mathematica ab Antiquis minus cognita.