Logarithmorum Canonis Descriptio. This appendix has been attributed to William Oughtred, who used the same symbol in his 1631 algebra text, Clavis Mathematicae... 11 KB (985 words) - 20:24, 12 April 2024 |
Bernard Oughtred (1880–1949), English rugby union player Elizabeth Oughtred (1518–1568), English baroness, wife of Anthony Ughtred Evelyne Oughtred Buchanan... 1 KB (174 words) - 02:19, 28 March 2024 |
earlier abbreviations for the Greek word periphery (περιφέρεια) by William Oughtred and others. His 1711 work Analysis per quantitatum series, fluxiones... 9 KB (810 words) - 01:15, 6 May 2024 |
the target area had vanished. 1630–1632: The slide rule invented by William Oughtred (1574–1660), developing on work by Edmund Gunter (1581–1626) and Edmund... 160 KB (16,528 words) - 22:00, 7 April 2024 |
widespread acceptance – Joseph Whitworth Rectilinear Slide rule – William Oughtred Compound steam turbine – Charles Algernon Parsons Stirling engine –... 133 KB (13,317 words) - 00:00, 2 April 2024 |
per arcminute). In 1633, William Oughtred suggested 349,800 feet to a degree (5830 feet per arcminute). Both Gunter and Oughtred put forward the notion... 20 KB (2,012 words) - 20:51, 20 April 2024 |