On the History of Gunter's Scale and the Slide Rule During the Seventeenth Century

Note 15 — II. INNOVATIONS IN GUNTER’S SCALE

Reading edition

James Atkinson’s edition of Andrew Wakely’s The Mariners Compass Rectified, London, 1694 [Wakely’s preface dated 1664, Atkinson’s preface, 1693]. Atkinson adds An Appendix containing Use of Instruments most useful in Navigation. Our quotation is from this Appendix, p. 199.

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