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Wright, Edward

Record IDcnp00012898

URIhttp://data.cerl.org/thesaurus/cnp00012898

Biographical Data1558 - 1615

Last Edit2024-02-08

General Note

Engl. Mathematiker und Kartograph

More Information

Further Biographical Data1558-1615

1558?-1615

ActivityMathematiker (gnd)

Names

HeadingWright, Edward
used in: Integrated Authority File (GND), Germany

Wright, Edward
used in: British Library: English Short Title Catalogue - AACR2 Heading, London (United Kingdom)

Variant NameE. W.

E. W., Edward Wright

W., E., Edward Wright

Wright, E., Edward

Sources

Found inLCAuth. — DNB=Wright, Edward, 1558?-1615; mathematician and hydrographer. — AC1=Wright, Edward; matr. Caius 1576.12.8; MA 1584, Fellow 1587-96; d. 1615

Imprint SourcesS112328: The safegard of saylers, or great rutter, 1612 tp=newly corrected and augmented by E. W. [=Edward Wright]

Title page of Edward Wright (1599) Certaine Errors in Navigation, arising either of the Ordinarie Erroneous Making or Vsing of the Sea Chart, Compasse, Crosse Staffe, and Tables of Declination of the Sunne, and Fixed Starres Detected and Corrected. (The Voyage of the Right Ho. George Earle of Cumberl. to the Azores, &c.), London: Printed ... [by Valentine Simmes and W. White] for Ed. Agas
[Edward Wright / Fig. 5.1 of Mark [Stephen] Monmonier (2004) Rhumb Lines and Map Wars: A Social History of the Mercator Projection, Chicago, Ill.: University of Chicago Press, p. 65 ISBN: 0-226-53431-6 (hbk.). From https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=nvwu4Ba_Qp0C&pg=PA63&source=gbs_toc_r&cad=0_0&sig=iMF8eEcNW1HsNQH8NTq-2DGGuVs#PPA65,M1. -- Public domain -- http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:EdwardWright-CertaineErrorsinNavigation-1599.jpg]