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Gun·ter   (gŭn'tər)   
English astronomer and mathematician who invented a surveying chain, quadrant, and scale and introduced the trigonometric terms cosine and cotangent.
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Gunter, Edmund

English mathematician who invented many useful measuring devices, including a forerunner of the slide rule.

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