Edward Wright
Sign in to saveEnglish mathematician and cartographer (1561-1615)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 52
Top works
- Regis pie memorie Edwardi Tertii a quadragesimo ad quinquagesimum. Anni omnes a mendis quibus miserrime scatebant repurgati & suo nitori restituti
- Dissertatio medica inauguralis, de ferri historia naturali, praeparatis, et usu medico ...
- Voiage of the Right Honorable George Erle of Cumberland to the Azores, &c
- Berks County, Pennsylvania Church Records of the 18th Century, Volume 5
- In the Nettles
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- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1953-12-21
- Active to
- 2020-05-10
Discography
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- 6,125
- Total plays
- 30,372
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Equation of State Calculations by Fast Computing Machines
· 1953 · cited 29,966x
- Self-determination theory and the facilitation of intrinsic motivation, social development, and well-being.
· 2000 · cited 28,616x
- The "What" and "Why" of Goal Pursuits: Human Needs and the Self-Determination of Behavior
· 2000 · cited 24,832x
- Adsorption of Gases in Multimolecular Layers
· 1938 · cited 24,554x
- Geant4—a simulation toolkit
· 2003 · cited 21,303x
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Edward
- Family name
- Wright
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of England
- Place of birth
- Garvestone
- Place of death
- London
- Occupation
- mathematician
- Educated at
- Gonville and Caius College
- Image
- EdwardWright-CertaineErrorsinNavigation-1599.jpg
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- Edward Wright (mathematician)
- date of death
- 1615-11-01
- date of baptism
- 1561-10-08
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- date of birth
- 1561-10-00
- different from
- Edward Wright
- name in native language
- Edward Wright
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
Sources (1)
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Article · Português
Edward Wright (batizado em 8 de outubro de 1561 em , Norfolk (Inglaterra) — Londres, novembro de 1615) foi um matemático e cartógrafo inglês. Wright lançou em seu livro "Certaine Errors in Navigation", publicado em 1599, as bases para os fundamentos matemáticos da projeção de Mercator. Além disso publicou diversas tabelas de cálculo, com as quais foi possível pela primeira vez construir e utilizar mapas com esta projeção.
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