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Edward Wright (mathematician)

Edward Wright (baptised 8 October 1561; died November 1615) was an English mathematician and cartographer noted for his book Certaine Errors in Navigation (1599; 2nd ed., 1610), which for the first time explained the mathematical basis of the Mercator projection by building on the works of Pedro Nunes, and set out a reference table giving the linear…

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Known for
Writing Certaine Errors in Navigation (1599) which first explained the mathematical basis for the Mercator projection, producing the Wright–Molyneux map (c. 1599), and translati…
Alma mater
Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Born
Garveston, Norfolk, East Anglia, England
Died
November 1615 (aged at least 54) London, England
Fields
Mathematics; navigation; cartography

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Edward Wright (mathematician) → Garveston, Norfolk, East Anglia, England
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