Original: The first description of this scale was published in Paris in 1624 by Edmund Wingate (c.1593 - 1656), an English mathematician, in a book entitled L'usage de la reigle de proportion en l'arithmetique & geometrie.
Simplified: The first description of this scale was published in Paris in 1624 by Edmund Wingate (c.1593 - 1656), an English Mathematician, in a book entitled “L'usage de la reigle de proportion en l'arithmetique & geometrie”.