About: Thomas Blundeville

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Thomas Blundeville (c. 1522 – c. 1606) was an English humanist writer and mathematician. He is known for work on logic, astronomy, education and horsemanship, as well as for translations from the Italian. His interests were both wide-ranging and directed towards practical ends, and he adapted freely a number of the works he translated. He was a pioneer writer in English in several areas, and inventor of a standard classroom geometrical instrument, the protractor.

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