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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 ...
Titel(s): Portret van William Oughtred Objecttype: prent Objectnummer: RP-P-1907-2855 Catalogusreferentie: New Hollstein German (Hollar) 868. Pennington 1477 Opschriften / Merken: verzamelaarsmerk, verso, gestempeld: Lugt 2228 Omschrijving: Portret van de Engelse wiskundige en geestelijke, William Oughtred. Vervaardiging
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".
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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.
Uhtred of Bamburgh (Uhtred the Bold—sometimes Uchtred; died ca. 1016), was ruler of Bamburgh and from 1006 to 1016 the ealdorman of Northumbria. He was the son of Waltheof I , ruler of Bamburgh (Bebbanburg) , whose family the Eadwulfingas had ruled the surrounding region for over a century.
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]
A covered vehicle outside the fire-damaged home of William de Rothschild, a.k.a. William Alfred Kauffman, who was found dead Nov. 27. Neighbors say he had a major car collection.