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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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  • 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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  • friends practically all the scientists of the day: Edward Wright, William Oughtred, Mark Ridley, and Lord Napier, to name but a few. Theologically, he...
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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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    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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    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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