Robert Recorde
The Life and Times of a Tudor Mathematician

Distributed for University of Wales Press
- Contents
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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
“The book begins with a revealing glimpse of Recorde’s life and then proceeds with extensive examinations of his texts on algebra, arithmetic, numbe theory, geometry, medicine, and astronomy. The final three chapters provide an overview of the historical, political, and social contexts for Recorde’s mathematical contributions. The book argues that Recorde was primarily a mathematics educator of high quality who suffered politically in the setting of Tudor England to the extent that he was imprisoned and died in relative obscurity. . . . An excellent book. Highly recommended.”
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