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 â L'usage de la reigle de proportion en l'arithmetique & geometrieâ . The first description of this scale was published in Paris in 1624 by Edmund Wingate ( c. 1593 â `` 1656 ) , an English mathematician , in a book entitled L'usage de la reigle de proportion en l'arithmetique & geometrie .