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Gunter, Edmund
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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Mathematician, born in Hertfordshire; was educated at Oxford for the Church, but his natural bent was towards mathematical science, and in 1619 he became professor of Astronomy in Gresham College, London, a position he held till his death; his "Canon Triangulorum" was the first table of logarithmic sines and tangents drawn up on Briggs's system; amongst other of his inventions was the surveying chain, a quadrant, Gunter's scale, and he was the first to observe the variations of the compass (1581-1626).
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Gunter, Edmund'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/g/gunter-edmund.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Gunter, Edmund'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/g/gunter-edmund.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
