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Vincent Wing

The Olympia Domata for 1670 was edited by his elder son, Vincent Wing; and the numbers for 1704 to 1727 by his nephew, John Wing of Pickworth, Rutland, coroner of the county, who published in 1693 Heptarchia Mathematica, and in 1699 an enlarged version of his uncle's Art of Surveying, supplemented by Scientia Stellarum, Calculation of the Planets' Places, etc.

He was the eldest son of Vincent Wing (1587–1660) of North Luffenham, Rutland, where he was born on 9 April 1619.

He contracted consumption, of which he died on 20 September 1668, aged 49.



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