Oughtred
常見例句
- Denied credit for his invention, Oughtred was outraged.
奧特雷德因為發(fā)明的功勞被抹煞而大為光火。 - 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(fā)明在手,從此大家不需要對數(shù)表手冊,甚至用不著知道對數(shù)是什麼。 - 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,英格蘭圣公會牧師奧特雷德(WilliamOughtred)將兩把可滑動的木制對數(shù)尺并排放置,制作出史上首支計算尺,數(shù)年后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.
因為某些原因,奧特雷德沒有公開發(fā)表他的發(fā)明,但他的學(xué)生德萊門(RichardDelamain)于1630年在一份小報上宣稱他發(fā)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;
身為純數(shù)學(xué)愛好者,他可能不覺得自己的發(fā)明很有價值,畢竟數(shù)學(xué)家創(chuàng)造方程式,不應(yīng)用方程式。 返回 Oughtred