25. Mai 2022
The Jost Bürgi Activities 2022, co-organised by the SPS, Swiss Physical Society, also dealt with the topic of logarithmic circle diagrams, which appeared as volvelles (rotating number disks of angle-coded exponential functions) in the Renaissance. They could be used not only to perform mathematical operations such as the multiplication, but also to visualise questions of music theory, in the past as well as nowadays.