Art Resource - AR924281

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Title page of The Description and Use of the Sector by Edmund Gunter, 1636.

Title page of The Description and Use of the Sector by Edmund Gunter, 1636. It shows mariners holding various navigational instruments, including a sector and a cross-staff at the top, and a horary quadrant at bottom right. Gunter (1581-1626) was an English mathematician and astronomer who invented many measuring instruments which bear his name; Gunter's Chain, the 22-yard-long, 100-link chain used by surveyors; Gunter's Line, the forerunner of the modern slide-rule; Gunter's Scale, a navigational tool; and the portable Gunter's Quadrant. He also introduced the words cosine and cotangent into the language of trigonometry. (London, 1636)

Unique Identifier AR924281

Type Image

Purpose Public

Size 3688px × 4733px

Photo Credit HIP / Art Resource, NY

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