William Oughtred: A Great Seventeenth-Century Teacher of MathematicsCajori, Florian
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William Oughtred: A Great Seventeenth-Century Teacher of Mathematics
Cajori, Florian
Mathematicians -- Biography; Mathematics -- Study and teaching -- History -- 17th century; Oughtred, William, 1575-1660
[44]A. von Braunmühl, Geschichte der Trigonometrie, 2. Teil, Leipzig,
1903, pp. 42, 91.
[45]H. Hankel, Geschichte der Mathematik in Alterthum und Mittelalter,
Leipzig, 1874, pp. 369, 370.
[46]M. Cantor, Vorlesungen über Geschichte der Mathematik, II, 1900, pp.
640, 641.
[47]This matter has been discussed in a paper by F. Cajori, “A History of
the Arithmetical Methods of Approximation, etc., Colorado College
Publication, General Series No. 51, 1910, pp. 182-84. Later this
subject was again treated by G. Eneström in Bibliotheca mathematica,
3. Folge, Vol. XI, 1911, pp. 234, 235.
[48]See F. Cajori, op. cit., p. 193.
[49]See William Oughtred’s Key of the Mathematicks, London, 1694, pp.
173-75, tract, “Of the Resolution of the Affected Equations,” or any
edition of the Clavis after the first.
[50]A. De Morgan, op. cit., p. 451; 2d ed., Vol. II, p. 303.
[51]See F. Cajori, History of the Logarithmic Slide Rule, New York, 1909,
pp. 7-14, Addenda, p. ii.
[52]Rigaud, op. cit., Vol. I, p. 12.
[53]The New Artificial Gauging Line or Rod: together with rules
concerning the use thereof: Invented and written by William Oughtred,
London, 1633.
[54]W. Oughtred, Apologeticall Epistle, p. 13.
[55]Quarterly Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics, Vol. XLVI, (1915),
p. 169. In this article Glaisher republishes the “Appendix” in full.
[56]Aubrey, op. cit., Vol. II, 1898, p. 108.
[57]Wood’s Athenae Oxonienses (ed. P. Bliss), Vol. IV, 1820, p. 247.
[58]Wood, op. cit., Vol. II, p. 445.
[59]Rigaud, op. cit., Vol. I, pp. 33, 35.
[60]Rigaud, op. cit., Vol. I, pp. 16, 26.
[61]Rigaud, op. cit., Vol. I, p. 66.
[62]Ibid., Vol. I, p. 9.
[63]Rigaud, op. cit., Vol. II, p. 475.
[64]Ibid., Vol. II, p. 471.
[65]J. W. L. Glaisher, “On Early Logarithmic Tables, and Their
Calculators,” Philosophical Magazine, 4th Ser., Vol. XLV (1873), pp.
378, 379.
[66]Rigaud, op. cit., Vol. I, p. 65.
[67]Rigaud, op. cit., Vol. I, p. 87.
[68]King’s Life of John Locke, Vol. I, London, 1830, p. 227.
[69]Exercitationum Mathematicarum Decas prima, Naples, 1627, and probably
Cataldus’ Transformatio Geometrica, Bonon., 1612.
[70]Rigaud, op. cit., Vol. II, pp. 477-80.
[71]Miscellanies: or Mathematical Lucubrations, of Mr. Samuel Foster,
Sometimes publike Professor of Astronomie in Gresham Colledge in
London, by John Twysden, London, 1659.
[72]The Works of the Honourable Robert Boyle in five volumes, to which is
prefixed the Life of the Author, Vol. I, London, 1744, p. 24.
[73]The letter is printed in John Wallis’ De algebra tractatus, 1693, p.
206.
[74]See La Correspondance de Descartes, published by Charles Adam and
Paul Tannery, Vol. II, Paris, 1898, pp. 456 and 457.
[75]H. Bosmans, S.J., “La première édition de la Clavis Mathematica
d’Oughtred. Son influence sur la Géométrie de Descartes,” Annales de
la société scientifique de Bruxelles, 35th year, 1910-11, Part II, pp.
24-78.
[76]Ibid., p. 78.
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