material on Oughtred. Account of Oughtred by John Aubrey William Oughtred's "Key of the Mathematics" (John Salusbury's English translation of Oughtred's "Clavis...
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Bernard Oughtred (1880–1949), English rugby union player Elizabeth Oughtred (1518–1568), English baroness, wife of Anthony Ughtred Evelyne Oughtred Buchanan...
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Logarithmorum Canonis Descriptio. This appendix has been attributed to William Oughtred, who used the same symbol in his 1631 algebra text, Clavis Mathematicae...
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1622, William Oughtred of Cambridge combined two handheld Gunter rules to make a device that is recognizably the modern slide rule. Oughtred became involved...
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Getaldić Johannes Kepler Guidobaldo del Monte John Napier Pedro Nunes William Oughtred Luca Pacioli Robert Recorde Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia Ludovico Ariosto...
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per arcminute). In 1633, William Oughtred suggested 349,800 feet to a degree (5830 feet per arcminute). Both Gunter and Oughtred put forward the notion...
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earlier abbreviations for the Greek word periphery (περιφέρεια) by William Oughtred and others. His 1711 work Analysis per quantitatum series, fluxiones...
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Cornwell was born in London in 1944. His father was Canadian airman William Oughtred and his mother was Englishwoman Dorothy Cornwell, a member of the Women's...
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and astronomer clergyman William Oughtred (1574-1660). He is best known for his book, a translation and edition of Oughtred's treatise entitled The Circles...
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double scale, logarithmic on one side, tabular on the other. In 1630, William Oughtred of Cambridge invented a circular slide rule, and in 1632 combined two...
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widespread acceptance – Joseph Whitworth Rectilinear Slide rule – William Oughtred Compound steam turbine – Charles Algernon Parsons Stirling engine –...
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Danes. In 1638 William Oughtred wrote a letter to Allen asking him to make the earliest known Oughtred slide rule, and indicating that Oughtred himself had...
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Richard; Hume, Ted; Koppany, Bob, eds. (2012). Oughtred Society Slide Rule Reference Manual (PDF). Oughtred Society. Archived (PDF) from the original on...
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Katakana ナ na and メme. The multiplication sign (×), often attributed to William Oughtred (who first used it in an appendix to the 1618 edition of John Napier's...
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π for the Archimedes constant (proposed by William Jones, based on an earlier notation of William Oughtred). Since then many new notations have been introduced...
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was a device that used a shadow as an indicator. The mathematician William Oughtred published a book, Easy Method of Mathematical Dialling, around 1600...
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decimal separator 1593 Christopher Clavius × multiplication sign 1618 William Oughtred ± plus–minus sign 1628 ∷ proportion sign n√ radical symbol (for nth...
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the target area had vanished. 1630–1632: The slide rule invented by William Oughtred (1574–1660), developing on work by Edmund Gunter (1581–1626) and Edmund...
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e {\displaystyle e} . It is assumed that the table was written by William Oughtred. In 1661, Christiaan Huygens studied how to compute logarithms by geometrical...
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Geometry", which had been written by Oughtred earlier in life. The original edition brought the autodidactic Oughtred acclaim amongst mathematicians, but...
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scale, Gunter's rule, was invented shortly after Napier's invention. William Oughtred enhanced it to create the slide rule—a pair of logarithmic scales movable...
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Windsor and Eton relief road), a bypass opened in 1966. In birth order: William Oughtred (1574–1660), mathematician and cleric Edmund Bristow (1787–1876), artist...
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(from an English standpoint) had been pulled together by the text of William Oughtred, as more than a collection of symbolic abbreviations. Socially, the...
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example, Oughtred, William (1648). Clavis Mathematicæ [The key to mathematics] (in Latin). London: Thomas Harper. p. 69. (English translation: Oughtred, William...
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slide rule was invented around 1620–1630, by the English clergyman William Oughtred, shortly after the publication of the concept of the logarithm. It...
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This calculating aid was a predecessor of the slide rule. It was William Oughtred who first used two such scales sliding by one another to perform direct...
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aluminium Elisha Otis (1811–1861), U.S. – safety system for elevators William Oughtred (1575–1660), UK – slide rule Arogyaswami Paulraj (born 1944), India/U...
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was finally able to indulge his mathematical interests, mastering William Oughtred's Clavis Mathematicae in a few weeks in 1647. He soon began to write...
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well as supporting others, including Walter Warner, Robert Payne, and William Oughtred. During the First English Civil War from 1642 to 1646, he became a...
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Parliament, claimed as the inspiration for Malvolio in Twelfth Night. William Oughtred (1575–1660), mathematician Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex (1591–1646)...
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