Edmund Wingate

Edmund Wingate
Personal details
Born1596 (1596)
Died1656 (aged 59–60)
London, England
Spouse
Elizabeth Button
(m. 1628)
Children7
EducationQueen's College, Oxford
OccupationLawyer, mathematician
Usage de la reigle de proportion en l'arithmetique et geometrie, 1624

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 slide rule, and later the author of some popular expository works. He was also a Member of Parliament during the Interregnum.


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