Edmund Gunter (1581 – 10 December 1626), was an English clergyman, mathematician, geometer and astronomer of Welsh descent. He is best remembered for...

mathematician Edmund Gunter (1581–1626). It enabled plots of land to be accurately surveyed and plotted, for legal and commercial purposes. Gunter developed...

American artist Edmund Gettier (1927–2021), American philosopher Edmund Goulding (1891–1959), British film writer and director Edmund Gunter (1581–1626),...

miles (24,024 statute miles). Around that time British mathematician Edmund Gunter improved navigational tools including a new quadrant to determine latitude...

make a furlong. Eight thousand links make a mile. Edmund Gunter designed and introduced the Gunter's chain in England in 1620. By correlating traditional...

of a degree of latitude and the linear measurement of miles. In 1624 Edmund Gunter suggested 352,000 feet to a degree (5866 2/3 feet per arcminute). In...

280 feet, to tie in with agricultural practice. In 1620, the polymath Edmund Gunter developed a method of accurately surveying land using a surveyor's chain...

brother of Phil Gunter Edmund Gunter (1581–1626), British mathematician and inventor, known for: Gunter's chain Gunter's rule James Gunter (1745–1819), English...

use a decimal-based system of measurement devised by Edmund Gunter in 1620. The base unit is Gunter's chain of 66 feet (20 m) which is subdivided into 4...

the English mathematician Edmund Gunter further adapted the quadrant with an invention that came to be known as the Gunter quadrant. This pocket sized...