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Born 1581 • Hertfordshire • England
Died December 10, 1626 (aged 45) • London • England
Subjects Of Study trigonometry table
William Oughtred, watercolour by George Perfect Harding after an engraving by Wenceslaus Hollar, 1644; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
William Oughtred
English mathematician
Edmond Halley
Edmond Halley
British scientist
John Herschel
Sir John Herschel, 1st Baronet
English astronomer
Henry Briggs
English mathematician
Henry Maudslay
British engineer and inventor
John Hadley
British mathematician
Chester Moor Hall
British jurist and mathematician
Edward Weston
Edward Weston
American engineer and industrialist
Sir Charles Vernon Boys
British physicist and inventor
Francis Hauksbee, the Elder
English scientist
George Dollond
British optician
Jesse Ramsden
British tool maker
Helmholtz.
Hermann von Helmholtz
German scientist and philosopher
Galileo
Galileo
Italian philosopher, astronomer and mathematician
Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal
French philosopher and scientist
Werner Heisenberg
Werner Heisenberg
German physicist and philosopher
Archimedes
Archimedes
Greek mathematician
Kelvin, William Thomson, Baron
William Thomson, Baron Kelvin
Scottish engineer, mathematician, and physicist
Six astronomers, after Gerard Hoet (1692)
Hipparchus
Greek astronomer
Theodore von Kármán
Theodore von Kármán
American engineer

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