TABLE OF CONTENTS
PAGE [Introduction] 1 CHAPTER [I. Oughtred’s Life] 3 [At School and University] 3 [As Rector and Amateur Mathematician] 6 [His Wife] 7 [In Danger of Sequestration] 8 [His Teaching] 9 [Appearance and Habits] 12 [Alleged Travel Abroad] 14 [His Death] 15 [II. Principal Works] 17 [Clavis mathematicae] 17 [Circles of Proportion and Trigonometrie] 35 [Solution of Numerical Equations] 39 [Logarithms] 46 [Invention of the Slide Rule; Controversy on Priority of Invention] 46 [III. Minor Works] 50 [IV. Oughtred’s Influence upon Mathematical Progress and Teaching] 57 [Oughtred and Harriot] 57 [Oughtred’s Pupils] 58 [Oughtred, the “Todhunter of the Seventeenth Century”] 60 [Was Descartes Indebted to Oughtred?] 69 [The Spread of Oughtred’s Notations] 73 [V. Oughtred’s Ideas on the Teaching of Mathematics] 84 [General Statement] 84 [Mathematics, “a Science of the Eye”] 85 [Rigorous Thinking and the Use of Instruments] 87 [Newton’s Comments on Oughtred] 94 [Index] 97