On the History of Gunter’s Scale and the Slide Rule During the Seventeenth Century
by Florian Cajori
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About this eBook
- 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.Untitled
- 2.ON THE HISTORY OF GUNTER’S SCALE AND THE SLIDE RULE DURING THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY
- 3.TABLE OF CONTENTS
- 4.I. INTRODUCTION
- 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.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.V. INDEPENDENCE AND PRIORITY OF INVENTION
- 8.VI. OUGHTRED’S GAUGING LINE, 1633
- 9.VII. OTHER SEVENTEENTH CENTURY SLIDE RULES
- 10.Footnotes
- 11.UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PUBLICATIONS
- 12.Transcriber’s Notes
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