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Early Modern English mathematical practitioners

RICARD EDEN (C. 1520–1576)
The alchemist, who became a cosmographer

THOMAS BLUNDEVILLE (C. 1522–C. 1606)

The equestrian country gentleman, who turned his hand to navigation

JOHN DEE (1527–C. 1611)

John Dee, the ‘Mathematicall Praeface’ and the English School of Mathematics

WILLIAM BOURNE (C. 1535–1582)

The first rule is of a good Navigator

THOMAS ALLEN (1542–1632)

Mathematician, astrologer, conjurer!

JOHN DAVIS (C. 1550–1605)

The Seaman’s Secrets

JOHN BLAGRAVE (D. 1611)

THE MATHEMATICAL IEVVEL

THOMAS HOOD (1556–1620)

Mathematicall Lecturer to the Citie of London

THOMAS HARRIOT (C. 1560–1621), ROBERT HUES (1553–1632), WALTER WARNER (1563–1643), AND NATHANIEL TORPORLEY

(1564–1632).
The Wizard Earl’s mathematici

THOMAS HARRIOT (C. 1560–1621)

He didn’t publish and so he perished (historically)

EDWARD WRIGHT (1561–1615)

Correcting navigation errors, the Wright way

HENRY BRIGGS (1561–1630)

The first English professor of mathematics

WILLIAM OUGHTRED (1574–1660)

Sliding to mathematical fame

EDMUND GUNTER (1581–1626)

An inventor of instruments

Magnetic Variations

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Magnetic Variations – I Setting the scene

Magnetic Variations – II The Borough Brothers

Magnetic Variations – III Robert Norman

Magnetic Variations – IV William Barlow

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