On the History of Gunter's Scale and the Slide Rule During the Seventeenth CenturyCajori, Florian
History
On the History of Gunter's Scale and the Slide Rule During the Seventeenth Century
Cajori, Florian
Slide-rule
[13]A Collection of Centers and Useful Proportions on the Line of Numbers,
by John Brown, 1662(?), 16 pages; Description and Use of the Triangular
Quadrant, by John Brown, London, 1671; Wingate’s Rule of Proportion in
Arithmetick and Geometry: or Gunter’s Line. Newly rectified by Mr. Brown
and Mr. Atkinson, Teachers of the Mathematicks, London, 1683; The
Description and Use of the Carpenter’s-Rule: Together with the Use of
the Line of Numbers commonly call’d Gunter’s-Line, by John Brown,
London, 1704.
[14]William Leybourn, op. cit., pp. 129, 130, 132, 133.
[15]James Atkinson’s edition of Andrew Wakely’s The Mariners Compass
Rectified, London, 1694 [Wakely’s preface dated 1664, Atkinson’s
preface, 1693]. Atkinson adds An Appendix containing Use of Instruments
most useful in Navigation. Our quotation is from this Appendix, p. 199.
[16]R. Delamain, The Making, Description, and Use of a small portable
Instrument . . . called a Horizontall Quadrant, etc., London, 1631.
[17]Oughtred’s description of his circular slide rule of 1632 and his
rectilinear slide rule of 1633, as well as a drawing of the circular
slide rule, are reproduced in Cajori’s History of the Slide Rule,
Addenda, pp. ii-vi.
[18]The full title of the Grammelogia I is as follows:
Gram̄elogia | or, | The Mathematicall Ring. | Shewing (any
reasonable Capacity that hath | not Arithmeticke) how to resolve and
worke | all ordinary operations of Arithmeticke. | And those which are
most difficult with greatest | facilitie: The extraction of Roots, the
valuation of | Leases, &c. The measuring of Plaines | and Solids. | With
the resolution of Plaine and Sphericall | Triangles. | And that onely by
an Ocular Inspection, | and a Circular Motion. | Naturae secreta tempus
aperit. | London printed by John Haviland, 1630.
[19]Grammelogia III is the same as Grammelogia I, except for the addition
of an appendix, entitled:
De la Mains | Appendix | Vpon his | Mathematicall | Ring. Attribuit
nullo (praescripto tempore) vitae | vsuram nobis ingeniique Deus. |
London, |
. . . The next line or two of this title-page which probably contained
the date of publication, were cut off by the binder in trimming the
edges of this and several other pamphlets for binding into one volume.
[20]Grammelogia IV has two title pages. The first is Mirifica Logarithmoru’
Projectio Circularis. There follows a diagram of a circular slide rule,
with the inscription within the innermost ring: Nil Finis, Motvs,
Circvlvs vllvs Habet. The second title page is as follows:
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