At about this time he was inspired to write Clavis Mathematicae ( The Key to Mathematics), published in 1631. Oughtred corresponded with Henry Briggs, of common logarithm fame, and Edmund Gunter, who invented Gunter’s chain, quadrant, and scale. Around 1628 he was appointed by the Earl of Arundel to teach his son mathematics. In 1610 he became rector of Albury, where he remained the rest of his life. In 1603, he left Cambridge to live in Shalford, where he married Christsgift Caryll. He earned his BA in 1596 and MA in 1600, during a period in which he began to study mathematics intensively. 1618), was a writing-master and registrar. William Oughtred (1574-1660) was born at Eton and educated at King’s College, Cambridge University, where he became a fellow and where his father, Benjamin Oughtred (d.
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