References for Edmund Gunter

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  1. J V Pepper, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
  2. Biography by H K Higton, in Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford, 2004).
  3. Biography in Encyclopaedia Britannica. [Available on the Web]

Books:

  1. E G R Taylor, The mathematical practitioners of Tudor and Stuart England (1954).
  2. J Ward, The lives of the Professors of Gresham College (London, 1740).

Articles:

  1. B E Babcock, Some notes on the history and use of Gunter's scale, Journal of the Oughtred Society 3 (1994), 14-20.
  2. C H Cotter, Edmund Gunter (1581-1626), Journal of Navigation 34 (1981), 363-367.
  3. N T Gridgeman, John Napier and the history of logarithms, Scripta Math. 29 (1973), 49-65.
  4. B Penkov, Mathematical history calendar for the year 1976 I (Bulgarian), Fiz.-Mat. Spis. B'lgar. Akad. Nauk. (3-4) 19(52) (1976), 227-234.
  5. J V Pepper, Harriot's Unpublished Papers, History of Science 6 (1968), 17-40.
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