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...

Bernard Oughtred (1880–1949), English rugby union player Elizabeth Oughtred (1518–1568), English baroness, wife of Anthony Ughtred Evelyne Oughtred Buchanan...

Logarithmorum Canonis Descriptio. This appendix has been attributed to William Oughtred, who used the same symbol in his 1631 algebra text, Clavis Mathematicae...

1622, William Oughtred of Cambridge combined two handheld Gunter rules to make a device that is recognizably the modern slide rule. Oughtred became involved...

Getaldić Johannes Kepler Guidobaldo del Monte John Napier Pedro Nunes William Oughtred Luca Pacioli Robert Recorde Niccolò Fontana Tartaglia Ludovico Ariosto...

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...

earlier abbreviations for the Greek word periphery (περιφέρεια) by William Oughtred and others. His 1711 work Analysis per quantitatum series, fluxiones...

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...

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...

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...

Richard; Hume, Ted; Koppany, Bob, eds. (2012). Oughtred Society Slide Rule Reference Manual (PDF). Oughtred Society. Archived (PDF) from the original on...

widespread acceptance – Joseph Whitworth Rectilinear Slide rule – William Oughtred Compound steam turbine – Charles Algernon Parsons Stirling engine –...

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...

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...

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...

was a device that used a shadow as an indicator. The mathematician William Oughtred published a book, Easy Method of Mathematical Dialling, around 1600...

decimal separator 1593 Christopher Clavius × multiplication sign 1618 William Oughtred ± plus–minus sign 1628 ∷ proportion sign n√   radical symbol (for nth...

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...

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...

Geometry", which had been written by Oughtred earlier in life. The original edition brought the autodidactic Oughtred acclaim amongst mathematicians, but...

(from an English standpoint) had been pulled together by the text of William Oughtred, as more than a collection of symbolic abbreviations. Socially, the...

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...

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...

example, Oughtred, William (1648). Clavis Mathematicæ [The key to mathematics] (in Latin). London: Thomas Harper. p. 69. (English translation: Oughtred, William...

slide rule was invented around 1620–1630, by the English clergyman William Oughtred, shortly after the publication of the concept of the logarithm. It...

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...

aluminium Elisha Otis (1811–1861), U.S. – safety system for elevators William Oughtred (1575–1660), UK – slide rule Arogyaswami Paulraj (born 1944), India/U...

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...

Volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius for the only time this century. William Oughtred publishes Clavis Mathematicae, introducing the multiplication sign...

Parliament, claimed as the inspiration for Malvolio in Twelfth Night. William Oughtred (1575–1660), mathematician Robert Devereux, 3rd Earl of Essex (1591–1646)...