GÜNS, a free town of Hungary. See KÖSZEGH.
GUNTER, EDMUND, an ingenious English mathematician and mechanist, was born in Hertfordshire about the year 1581. He was educated at Westminster, and afterwards at Christ Church College, Oxford, where he graduated. Though he took holy orders in 1614, mathematics, which had been his favourite study from his youth, continued to engrass his attention, and in 1619 he was chosen to the chair of astronomy in Gresham College, where he remained till his death in 1626. Of Gunter's written works the chief are his Canon Triangulorum, a table of logarithmic sines and tangents, extended to seven decimal places, and forming a sort of complement to the logarithms of natural numbers by his colleague Briggs. His practical inventions are detailed below under their respective heads.