Edward Wright (mathematician)
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Edward 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 projection, and set out a reference table giving the linear scale multiplication factor as a function of latitude, calculated for each minute of arc up to a latitude of 75°. This was the essential step needed to make practical both the making and the navigational use of Mercator charts. Wright was educated at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, where he became a fellow from 1587 to 1596. In 1589 the College granted him leave after Elizabeth I requested that he carry out navigational studies with a raiding expedition organised by the Earl of Cumberland to the Azores to capture Spanish galleons
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- Allgemeine Informationen
- GTIN 09786130242732
- Editor Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster
- Sprache Englisch
- Genre Mathematik
- Anzahl Seiten 308
- Größe H220mm x B150mm x T18mm
- Jahr 2009
- EAN 9786130242732
- Format Kartonierter Einband
- ISBN 978-613-0-24273-2
- Titel Edward Wright (mathematician)
- Untertitel Baptism, Mathematician, Cartography, Mercator projection, Latitude, Minute of arc, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, Fellow, Elizabeth I of England, Navigation
- Gewicht 475g
- Herausgeber Alphascript Publishing
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