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On the History of Gunter’s Scale and the Slide Rule During the Seventeenth Century

On the History of Gunter’s Scale and the Slide Rule During the Seventeenth Century

by Florian Cajori

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Author
Cajori, Florian, 1859-1930
Title
On the History of Gunter's Scale and the Slide Rule During the Seventeenth Century
Credits
Produced by Brenda Lewis, Stephen Hutcheson and the Online Distributed Proofreading Canada Team at www.pgdpcanada.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
Language
English
LoC Class
QA: Science: Mathematics
Subject
Slide-rule
Category
Text
eBook-No.
42216
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/42216
Release Date
February 26, 2013
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.Untitled
  2. 2.ON THE HISTORY OF GUNTER’S SCALE AND THE SLIDE RULE DURING THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
  3. 3.TABLE OF CONTENTS
  4. 4.I. INTRODUCTION
  5. 5.II. INNOVATIONS IN GUNTER’S SCALE — Changes introduced by Wingate — Changes introduced by Milbourn — Changes introduced by Thomas Brown and John Brown — Changes introduced by William Leybourn
  6. 6.III. RICHARD DELAMAIN’S GRAMMELOGIA — Different editions or impressions — Description of Delamain’s instrument of 1630 — Delamain’s later designs, and directions for using his instruments — IV. CONTROVERSY BETWEEN OUGHTRED AND DELAMAIN ON THE INVENTION OF THE CIRCULAR SLIDE RULE
  7. 7.V. INDEPENDENCE AND PRIORITY OF INVENTION
  8. 8.VI. OUGHTRED’S GAUGING LINE, 1633
  9. 9.VII. OTHER SEVENTEENTH CENTURY SLIDE RULES
  10. 10.Footnotes
  11. 11.UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PUBLICATIONS
  12. 12.Transcriber’s Notes

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