Edmund Wingate, who lived from 1596 to 1656, was an English mathematical and legal writer, one of the first to publish in the 1620s on the principle of Gunter's scale or Gunter's rule and later the author of popular expository works, and a Member of Parliament during the Interregnum. The second son of Roger Wingate of Sharpenhoe in Bedfordshire, he was born at Flamborough in Yorkshire in 1596, matriculated from The Queen's College, Oxford, in 1610, graduated B.A. in 1614 and was admitted to Gray's Inn. Before 1624 he went to Paris, where he became teacher of English to the Princess Henrietta Maria and communicated to mathematicians there the rule of proportion, a logarithmic scale recently invented by Edmund Gunter, rushing into print to obtain priority. In England at the outbreak of the First English Civil War he sided with Parliament.
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Edmund Wingate (1596–1656) was an English mathematical and legal writer, one of the first to publish in the 1620s on the principle of the Gunter's scale or Gunter's rule, and later the author of some popular expository works.
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Edmund Wingate (1596-1656) was an English mathematical and legal writer, one of the first to publish in the 1620s on the principle of the Gunter's scale or Gunter's rule, and later the author of some popular expository works.
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Edmund Wingate (1596-1656) was an English mathematical and legal writer, one of the first to publish in the 1620s on the principle of the Gunter's scale or Gunter's rule, and later the author of some popular expository works.
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He was also a Member of Parliament during the Interregnum. == Life == The second son of Roger Wingate of Sharpenhoe in Bedfordshire and of his wife Jane, daughter of Henry Birch, he was born at Flamborough in Yorkshire in 1596 and baptised there on 11 June.
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Edmund Wingate (1596-1656) was an English mathematical and legal writer, one of the first to publish in the 1620s on the principle of the Gunter's scale or Gunter's rule, and later the author of some popular expository works.
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