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
Grammelogia | Or, the Mathematicall Ring. | Extracted from the
Logarythmes, and projected Circular: Now published in the | inlargement
thereof unto any magnitude fit for use: shewing any reason- | able
capacity that hath not Arithmeticke how to resolve and worke, | all
ordinary operations of Arithmeticke: | And those that are most difficult
with greatest facilitie, the extracti- | on of Rootes, the valuation of
Leases, &c. the measuring of Plaines and Solids, | with the resolution
of Plaine and Sphericall Triangles applied to the | Practicall parts of
Geometrie, Horologographie, Geographie | Fortification, Navigation,
Astronomie, &c. | And that onely by an ocular inspection, and a Circular
motion, Invented and first published, by R. Delamain, Teacher, and
Student of the Mathematicks. | Naturae secreta tempus aperit. |
There is no date. There follows the diagram of a second circular slide
rule, with the inscription within the innermost ring: Typus proiectionis
Annuli adaucti vt in Conslusione Lybri praelo commissi, Anno 1630
promisi. There are numerous drawings in the Grammelogia, all of which,
excepting the drawings of slide rules on the engraved title-pages of
Grammelogia IV and V, were printed upon separate pieces of paper and
then inserted by hand into the vacant spaces on the printed pages
reserved for them. Some drawings are missing, so that the Bodleian
Grammelogia IV differs in this respect slightly from the copy in the
British Museum and from the British Museum copy of Grammelogia V.
[21]Epistle, p. (8).
[22]Aubrey, op. cit., Vol. II., p. 111.
[23]Rigaud, Correspondence of Scientific Men during the 17th Century, Vol.
I, Oxford, 1841, p. 11.
[24]Dictionary of National Biography, Art. “Delamain, Richard.” See also
Rev. Charles J. Robinson, Taylors’ School, from A.D. 1562 to 1874, Vol.
I, 1882, p. 151; Journal of the House of Commons, Vol. IV., p. 197b;
Sixth Report of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts, Part I,
Report and Appendix, London, 1877. In this Appendix, p. 82, we read the
following:
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