Oughtred

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Denied credit for his invention, Oughtred was outraged.
奧特雷德因爲發明的功勞被抹煞而大爲光火。
With Oughtred's invention in hand, no one needed a book of logarithms or even had to know what a log was.
有了奧特雷德的發明在手，從此大家不需要對數表手冊，甚至用不著知道對數是什麽。
Around 1622 William Oughtred, an Anglican minister in England, placed two sliding wooden logarithmic scales next to each other and created the first slide rule.
1622年左右，英格蘭聖公會牧師奧特雷德（WilliamOughtred）將兩把可滑動的木制對數尺竝排放置，制作出史上首支計算尺，數年後他又制作了圓形計算尺。
For whatever reason, Oughtred failed to publish news of his invention, but one of his students, Richard Delamain, claimed in a 1630 pamphlet to have come up with the circular slide rule.
因爲某些原因，奧特雷德沒有公開發表他的發明，但他的學生德萊門（RichardDelamain）於1630年在一份小報上宣稱他發明了圓形計算尺。
Not that Oughtred crowed about his achievements.As one who loved pure mathematics, he probably felt that his invention was not worth much.After all, mathematicians created equations;
身爲純數學愛好者，他可能不覺得自己的發明很有價值，畢竟數學家創造方程式，不應用方程式。