Edmund Gunter was responsible for introducing the words cosine and cotangent to the world as well as producing a seven figure table of logarithms of sines and tangents. Gunter also manufactured and used a precursor of the slide rule, called the Gunter...

1581-1626 English mathematician and astronomer. Gunter received a divinity degree from Oxford, and became a Rector in Southwark. In addition he became professor of astronomy at Gresham College, London. He published some navigation works, tables of...

1581-1626 English mathematician and instrument maker who designed many instruments to simplify astronomical, nautical, and surveying calculations. These include a portable quadrant and forerunner of the modern slide rule known as...

Edmund Gunter (1581 - December 10, 1626), English mathematician, of Welsh extraction, was born in Hertfordshire in 1581. He was educated at Westminster School, and in 1599 was elected a student of Christ Church, Oxford. He took orders, became a preacher...