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Venterus Mandey

Mathematician and translator

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ104726609 ↗
Source-derived summary

Venterus Mandey (1646–1702), also called Venturus Mandey and Venteri Mandey, was an English bricklayer and mathematician.

References

Sources

Smith, Terence Paul (February 2003). "Venturus Mandey: No Ordinary Bricklayer". Information, 90, Bricklaying Issue. British Brick Society. pp. 16–19.

Further reading

Betts, Jonathan; McEvoy, Rory, eds. (2020). Harrison Decoded: Towards a Perfect Pendulum Clock.

Editorial summary

“Venterus Mandey” enters the record as mathematician and translator. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Venterus, Mandey and Mathematician can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1646, 1702, 2003, 2020—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1646. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Venterus, Mandey and Mathematician.
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Why this record matters

“Venterus Mandey” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Venterus, Mandey and Mathematician provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q104726609. VIAF identifies the subject as 10197517. The Library of Congress control number is n85144448. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1646, 1702, 2003 and 2020.

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This entry incorporates text from “Venterus Mandey” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.