Edward Wright, baptised on 8 October 1561 and dead in November 1615, was an English mathematician and cartographer born at Garveston in Norfolk and educated at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he was a fellow from 1587 to 1596. He is noted for Certaine Errors in Navigation of 1599, which for the first time explained the mathematical basis of the Mercator projection, building on Pedro Nunes, and gave a table of the linear scale factor for each minute of latitude up to 75 degrees, in effect a table of the integral of the secant. In 1599 he also published the first world map made in England and the first to use the Mercator projection since Mercator's own of 1569. He later surveyed the New River project and tutored Henry Frederick, Prince of Wales.
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Wright (baptised 8 October 1561; died November 1615) was an English mathematician and cartographer noted for his book Certaine Errors in Navigation (1599; 2nd ed., 1610), which for the first time explained the mathematical basis of the Mercator
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Wright (baptised 8 October 1561; died November 1615) was an English mathematician and cartographer noted for his book Certaine Errors in Navigation (1599; 2nd ed., 1610), which for the first time explained the mathematical basis of the Mercator
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Wright (baptised 8 October 1561; died November 1615) was an English mathematician and cartographer noted for his book Certaine Errors in Navigation (1599; 2nd ed., 1610), which for the first time explained the mathematical basis of the Mercator
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