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Edmund Gunter: Table of Trigonometry, from the 1728 ''Cyclopaedia'', Volume 2 featuring a Gunter's scale
 
 
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Name: Edmund Gunter
Birth Date: 1581
Death Date: 1626
Nationality: English
Occupations: Mathematician

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Biography of Edmund Gunter
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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...


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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...
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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...
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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...


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Joe Weider's Muscle & Fitness
GUNter Schlierkamp
08/01/1999: 1,673 words, approx. 6 pages
What do you get when you attach 22 1/2-inch steel pipes to a 295-pound frame? The biceps of Germany's largest export. Gunter Schlierkamp adds to the din of echoing metal by sliding a third 25-pound plate onto the preacher-curl machine. The 29-year-old takes a...
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German Quarterly
Gunter Grass
04/01/2004: 756 words, approx. 3 pages
Mayer-Iswandy, Claudia. Gunter Grass. Munich: Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag, 2002. 245pp. euro9.50 paperback. Gunter Grass is the most recent of the dtv portrait series, "Biographien bedeutender Frauen und Manner aus Geschichte, Literatur, Philosophie, Kunst und Musik." Each volume, in affordable paperback format, has a...
 


 

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