ON THE HISTORY OF GUNTER'S SCALE AND THE SLIDE RULE DURING THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY

TABLE OF CONTENTS

I. INTRODUCTION

II. INNOVATIONS IN GUNTER'S SCALE Changes introduced by Wingate

III. RICHARD DELAMAIN'S GRAMMELOGIA

V. INDEPENDENCE AND PRIORITY OF INVENTION

VI. OUGHTRED'S GAUGING LINE, 1633

VII. OTHER SEVENTEENTH CENTURY SLIDE RULES

Footnotes

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Transcriber's Notes

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Vol. 1, No. 9, pp. 187-209 February 17, 1920