Robert Recorde
The Life and Times of a Tudor Mathematician
Distributed for University of Wales Press
232 pages
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5 1/2 x 8 1/2
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© 2012
Robert Recorde was the first person to write an original book on arithmetic in English, rather than in the then-standard Latin or Greek—and thus the first to write about math in a way that ordinary people could understand. He was, in effect, the first mathematics teacher in the English-speaking world. This biography, which provides a comprehensive overview of Recorde’s life and work, traces the major influences on his study and his writing and charts his contribution to the development of mathematical and scientific thinking in Europe.
J. Johnson, Wetern Washington University | Choice
“An excellent book. . . . Highly recommended.”
Contents
List of illustrations
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
Preface
Editorial conventions
Introduction
1. The lives and works of Robert Recorde
Jack Williams
2. Robert Recorde and his remarkable Arithmetic
John Denniss and Fenny Smith
3. Recorde and The Vrinal of Physick: context, uroscopy and the practice of medicine
Margaret Pelling
4. The Pathway to Knowledge and the English Euclidean tradition
Jacqueline Stedall
5. The Castle of Knowledge: astronomy and the sphere
Stephen Johnston
6. The Whetstone of Witte: content and sources
Ulrich Reich
7. The Welsh context of Robert Recorde
Nia M. W. Powell
8. Commonwealth and Empire: Robert Recorde in Tudor England
Howell A. Lloyd
9. Data, computation and the Tudor knowledge economy
John V. Tucker
Appendix: From Recorde to relativity: a speculation
Gareth Wyn Evans
Bibliography
Index
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
Preface
Editorial conventions
Introduction
1. The lives and works of Robert Recorde
Jack Williams
2. Robert Recorde and his remarkable Arithmetic
John Denniss and Fenny Smith
3. Recorde and The Vrinal of Physick: context, uroscopy and the practice of medicine
Margaret Pelling
4. The Pathway to Knowledge and the English Euclidean tradition
Jacqueline Stedall
5. The Castle of Knowledge: astronomy and the sphere
Stephen Johnston
6. The Whetstone of Witte: content and sources
Ulrich Reich
7. The Welsh context of Robert Recorde
Nia M. W. Powell
8. Commonwealth and Empire: Robert Recorde in Tudor England
Howell A. Lloyd
9. Data, computation and the Tudor knowledge economy
John V. Tucker
Appendix: From Recorde to relativity: a speculation
Gareth Wyn Evans
Bibliography
Index
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