\Gun"ter's scale`\
A scale invented by the Rev. Edmund Gunter (1581-1626), a
professor of astronomy at Gresham College, London, who
invented also {Gunter's chain}, and {Gunter's quadrant}.
Note: Gunter's scale is a wooden rule, two feet long, on one
      side of which are marked scales of equal parts, of
      chords, sines, tangents, rhombs, etc., and on the other
      side scales of logarithms of these various parts, by
      means of which many problems in surveying and
      navigation may be solved, mechanically, by the aid of
      dividers alone.