Talk:Edmund Gunter

Slide rule precursor?
Is the Gunter scale any relation to a slide rule? -- Cimon Avaro; on a pogostick. 16:12, 21 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Seems so - www.hpmuseum.org/sliderul.htm and  www.powerhousemuseum.com/collection/database/?irn=53093 GraL (talk) 19:58, 9 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Yes, it's a non-sliding logarithmic rule for computation, the immediate predecessor of, and for a long time competitor to, the slide rule. Dicklyon (talk) 20:06, 9 September 2008 (UTC)

Link towards the LOCOMAT collection
Do you think it appropriate to add a link towards my locomat (http://www.loria.fr/~roegel/locomat.html) collection of reconstructions of mathematical tables? It contains full analyses and reconstructions of Gunter's tables.Roegel (talk) 19:05, 11 December 2010 (UTC)

Querying holy orders
the text says: He took orders, became a preacher in 1614,. Is this just sloppy writing or a new usage of the word preacher- if he took orders he would be in the Church of England and have started his career as a curate. Should, became a preacher be deleted? -- Clem Rutter (talk) 21:20, 1 June 2015 (UTC)

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Reference to Henry Briggs
The text says: He was mentored in mathematics by Reverend Henry Briggs

I can find no reference that Henry Briggs was ordained or had any religious training at all.

Should 'Reverend' be removed?

— Preceding unsigned comment added by 104.169.171.45 (talk) 06:03, 4 October 2019 (UTC)