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Edmund Wingate

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Edmund Wingate (1596–1656) was an English mathematical and legal writer, one of the first to publish in the 1620s on the principle of the slide rule, and later the author of some popular expository works. He was also a Member of Parliament during the Interregnum.

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  • Summa Ratio est, quae pro Religione facit.
    • It is the highe Reason that makes for Religion.
    • Maximes of Reason, or, The Reason of the Common Law of England (London: printed by R. & W.L. for W. Lee, A. Crook, D. Pakeman, H. Twiford, G. Bedell, T. Dring, J. Place), p. 3, no. 1
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