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
Saladini, H., 78
Sanders, W., 76
Sault, R., 82
Scarborough, Charles, 16, 54, 58, 60
Schooten, Van, 1
Schreshensuchs, O., 83
Scratch method, 23
Shakespeare, 52
Shelley, G., 76
Shipley, A. E., 1
Shuttleworth, 59
Slide rule, 9, 46-49, 50, 60, 88, 93
Smethwyck, 58
Smith, J., 50
Snellius, W., 79
Solids, regular, 18
Speidell, John, 38, 55
Spherical triangles, 53, 54, 93
Stokes, R., 35, 36, 58
Sudell, 59
Sun dials, 5, 9, 50, 51, 52, 60, 92
Tannery, P., 71
Todhunter, 60
Torporley, 58
Triangles, spherical, 53, 54, 93
_Trigonometria_, 21, 36, 55, 75
Trigonometric functions, symbols for, 36, 37, 55, 56
_Trigonometrie_, 21, 35, 39
Trisection of angles, 28
Twysden, 59, 68, 69, 73
Varignon, 77
Vieta, 1, 2, 25, 32, 33, 35, 39-41, 45, 63, 67, 70, 71
Vlack, 65
Von Braunmühl, 39
Wadham College, 5, 53
Wallis, John, 1, 19, 27, 33, 45, 57-59, 63, 64, 66-74, 79-81, 86
Walmesley, D. C., 79
Ward, Bishop, 13
Ward, John, 76
Ward, Seth, 55, 58, 60, 68, 73, 74, 81
Watch-making, 18, 50
Weber, W. E., 48
Weddle, 56
Wells, E., 76, 82
Wharton, 60
Whitlock, B., 8, 9
Wilson, J., 77, 82
Wing, V., 73, 75
Wingate, E., 32, 47, 73
Wolf, Christian, 79
Wood, A., 60, 61
Wood, R., 18, 59
Wren, Christopher, 5, 58, 59, 76
Wright, E., 6, 27, 38, 54
Wright, S., 54
Transcriber’s Notes
A handful of typos, mostly misplaced punctuation, were silently
corrected.
HTML and UTF text versions make heavy use of mathematical symbols:
particularly superscripts, subscripts, and combining characters. Some
viewers may require user assistance to find fonts containing these
characters.
The text versions miss much of the formatting, especially in mathematical
formulas:
--Several arithmetic examples must be viewed in a monospaced font (which
recognizes combining characters) to be legible.
--Formulas under the horizontal line of a square root symbol are
parenthesized.
--Subscripts are preceded by “_”.
--Superscripts are preceded by “^”.
--Italics, used primarily in formulas and bibliographical entries, are
not indicated in the text.
--Italics in the index are delimited by “_”.
--Underlines are not indicated (in particular, in the fractional part of
a decimal number in Oughtred's notation).
--The idiosyncratic “greater than” and “less than” symbols are indicated
as {symbol} in the ASCII version.
--Overdots, underdots, and slashmarks around digits (in the long division
example) are not indicated in the ASCII version.
--Greek letters are spelled out within {curly brackets} in the ASCII
version.
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