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| Jurij Vega, born on March 23, 1754, in the small village of Zagorica, near Dolsko, east of Ljubljana in Slovenia, Jurij was 6 years old when his father Jernej Veha died. Jurij (or George in English) was educated first in Moravče and later in 1767 attended high school for six years in Ljubljana, studying Latin, Greek, religion, German, history, geography, science, and mathematics.
 Vega published a series of books of logarithm tables. The first one appeared in 1783. Much later, in 1797 it was followed by a second volume that contained a collection of integrals and other useful formulae. His Handbook, which was originally published in 1793, was later translated into several languages and appeared in over 100 issues. His major work was Zakladnica vseh logaritmov (Thesaurus Logarithmorum Completus or Treasury of all Logarithms) that was first published 1794 in Leipzig.
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VEGA, Jurij (1754-1802)
