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William Oughtred (5 March 1574 – 30 June 1660), [1] also Owtred, Uhtred, etc., was an English mathematician and Anglican clergyman. [2] [3] [4] After John Napier discovered logarithms and Edmund Gunter created the logarithmic scales (lines, or rules) upon which slide rules are based, Oughtred was the first to use two such scales sliding by one another to perform direct multiplication and ...
His earliest published work Grammelogia was dedicated to Charles I.It was attacked in William Oughtred's Circles of Proportion (1631), on grounds of plagiarism: Oughtred had taught Delamaine, and considered that the work simply reproduced his mathematical instruments without any serious understanding of the theory on which they depended. [1]
William Joseph Schallert [1] (July 6, 1922 – May 8, 2016) was an American character actor who appeared in dozens of television shows and films over a career spanning more than 60 years. [2] He is known for his roles on Richard Diamond, Private Detective (1957–1959), Death Valley Days (1955–1962), and The Patty Duke Show (1963–1966).
Clavis mathematicae (English: The Key of Mathematics) is a mathematics book written by William Oughtred, originally published in 1631 in Latin.It was an attempt to communicate the contemporary mathematical practices, and the European history of mathematics, into a concise and digestible form.
Oughtred or Ughtred is an Anglo-Saxon English given name and surname. It means "son of Uhtred ", being derived from the old English Ūhtrǣd composed of the elements uht "twilight, dusk" and ræd "advice".
Gerald Aungier, 2nd Baron Aungier of Longford ("Garret"), (baptized 23 March 1594), [4] heir, died 1651, [9] who married Jane Onslow, daughter of Sir Edward Onslow and Elizabeth Shirley. [20] Gerald was an accomplished student of antique and oriental languages, and both a patron and student of his near kinsman William Oughtred , who wrote very ...
Sir Anthony Ughtred or Oughtred, Knight banneret [4] [5] (c. 1478 – 6 October 1534 [2]) was an English soldier and military administrator during the reigns of Henry VII and Henry VIII. Ughtred fought in Ireland, the Anglo Scottish border and both on land and at sea in France.
In law, medicine, and statistics, cause of death is an official determination of the conditions resulting in a human's death, which may be recorded on a death certificate. A cause of death is determined by a medical examiner. In rare cases, an autopsy needs to be performed by a pathologist. The cause of death is a specific disease or injury, in ...