It appeares by his preface that his worth was attended by a great deal of envie.
Ibid.—He was in the voyage of the right honourable the earle of Cumberland in the yeare 1589. He 'devised the seaman's rings for the present finding out both of the variation of the needle and time of the day at one instant without any farther trouble of using any other instrument, and hath farther shewed how by the sun's point of the compasse (or magnetical azimuth) and altitude given by observation the variation may be found either mechanically with ruler and compasse or mathematically by the doctrine of triangles and arithmeticall calculation.'
John Collins <says that> he happened upon the logarithmes and did not know it, as maybe seen in his Errors: and Mr. Robert Norwood sayes to the reader in his Trigonometrie 'neither is Mr. Edward Wright to be forgotten though his endeavours were soonest prevented,' speaking of the logarithmes.
He published a booke of dialling in 4to, anno....
[1291]Mr. Edward Wright, ex Catalogo Bibl. Bodleianae.
Description of the sphere in three parts, London 1613——W. 1. 7.
Treatise of dialling, London 1614, 4to——H. 30. Art.
Correction of errors in navigation, 4to——W. 16. Art., et London 1599, 4to——W. 2. Art. BS.
The earle of Cumberland's voyage to the Azores, ibid.