Edmund Gunter (1581 – 10 December 1626), was an English clergyman, mathematician, geometer and astronomer of Welsh descent. He is best remembered for...

mathematician Edmund Gunter (1581–1626). It enabled plots of land to be accurately surveyed and plotted, for legal and commercial purposes. Gunter developed...

American artist Edmund Gettier (1927–2021), American philosopher Edmund Goulding (1891–1959), British film writer and director Edmund Gunter (1581–1626),...

make a furlong. Eight thousand links make a mile. Edmund Gunter designed and introduced the Gunter's chain in England in 1620. By correlating traditional...

of a degree of latitude and the linear measurement of miles. In 1624 Edmund Gunter suggested 352,000 feet to a degree (5866⁠2/3⁠ feet per arcminute). In...

use a decimal-based system of measurement devised by Edmund Gunter in 1620. The base unit is Gunter's chain of 66 feet (20 m) which is subdivided into 4...

280 feet, to tie in with agricultural practice. In 1620, the polymath Edmund Gunter developed a method of accurately surveying land using a surveyor's chain...

brother of Phil Gunter Edmund Gunter (1581–1626), British mathematician and inventor, known for: Gunter's chain Gunter's rule James Gunter (1745–1819), English...

the English mathematician Edmund Gunter further adapted the quadrant with an invention that came to be known as the Gunter quadrant. This pocket sized...

miles (24,024 statute miles). Around that time British mathematician Edmund Gunter improved navigational tools including a new quadrant to determine latitude...

(theodolite) triangulations. The rod as a survey measure was standardized by Edmund Gunter in England in 1607 as a quarter of a chain (of 66 feet (20.12 m)), or...

and Anglican clergyman. After John Napier discovered logarithms and Edmund Gunter created the logarithmic scales (lines, or rules) upon which slide rules...

Johannes Kepler (1571–1630) – (used geometric ideas in astronomical work) Edmund Gunter (1581–1686) Girard Desargues (1591–1661) – projective geometry; Desargues'...

Galileo), logarithms and Napier bones (by Napier), and the slide rule (by Edmund Gunter). The Renaissance saw the invention of the mechanical calculator by...

an additional sliding leg. In the 1600s, the British mathematician Edmund Gunter dispensed with accessories but added additional scales, including a...

body and slider. In about 1620, Edmund Gunter introduced what is now known as Gunter's line as one element of the Gunter's sector he invented for mariners...

trigonometric functions. The prefix "co-" can be found already in Edmund Gunter's Canon triangulorum (1620). For example, sine (Latin: sinus) and cosine...

1958, and was named by the UK Antarctic Place-Names Committee after Edmund Gunter, an English mathematician whose "line of numbers" (1617) was the first...

vane was the same as the distance from the vane to the sight vane. Edmund Gunter invented the cross bow quadrant, also called the mariner's bow, around...

and 1986. Among Napier's early followers were the instrument makers Edmund Gunter and John Speidell. The development of logarithms is given credit as...

John Napier's publication of the concept of the logarithm. In 1620 Edmund Gunter of Oxford developed a calculating device with a single logarithmic scale;...

description is of a developed instrument. Gunter's chain was introduced in 1620 by English mathematician Edmund Gunter. It enabled plots of land to be accurately...

1626) Jeremias Drexel, German Jesuit writer of devotional literature Edmund Gunter, English mathematician (d. 1626) Jean du Vergier de Hauranne, French...

basic law of refraction, known as Snell's law (born 1580) December 10 – Edmund Gunter, English mathematician (born 1581) Salomon de Caus, French mechanical...

shortly after John Napier's publication of the concept of the logarithm. Edmund Gunter of Oxford developed a calculating device with a single logarithmic scale;...

European to enter Tibet. Henry Briggs publishes Arithmetica Logarithmica. Edmund Gunter produces The description and use of sector, the cross-staffe, and other...

and dynamics. At Oxford University, Edmund Gunter built the first analog device to aid computation. The 'Gunter's scale' was a large plane scale, engraved...

functions can be written in terms of sine and cosine. Gunter, Edmund (1673) [1624]. The Works of Edmund Gunter. Francis Eglesfield. p. 73 Euler, Leonhard (1768)...

(1830–1914), British zoologist Christine Guenther, American mathematician Edmund Gunter, (1581–1626), English clergyman, mathematician, geometer and astronomer...

to be carried out significantly faster than was previously possible. Edmund Gunter built a calculating device with a single logarithmic scale at the University...