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OUGHTRED, WILLIAM (fl. 1575-166o) , English
Eton
Cambridge , of which he became fellow. Being admitted to holy orders, he left the university about 1603, and was presented to the rectory of Aldbury, near Guildford in Surrey; and about 1628 he was appointed by the earl
mathematics
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hearing the news of the vote at Westminster for the restoration of Charles II.He published, among other mathematical works, Clavis Mathematica, in 1631, in which he introduced new signs for certain mathematical operations (see ALGEBRA) ; a treatise on navigation entitled Circles of Proportion, in 1632; works on trigonometry and dialling, and his Opuscula Mathematica, published posthumously in 1676. End of Article: OUGHTRED, WILLIAM (fl. 1575-166o) If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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