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Robert Recorde was an important sixteenth-century Welsh physician and mathematician and one of the most enigmatic figures of Tudor England. This book presents a richly detailed and fully rounded picture of Recorde as an academic, theologian, astronomer, antiquarian, inventor of the “equals” sign (=), and writer of widely used textbooks. He was also a scholar who found himself completely out of depth in surrounding political and religious dramas. Drawing from numerous extracts from Recorde’s own writings transcribed into modern English, Gordon Roberts offers the first full-length biography of an intellectual at the center of intrigue and turmoil.

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Table of Contents
Series Editor's Foreword
List of Illustrations
Preface and Acknowledgments
Genealogy of Robert Recorde Physician
Prologue
1 Child of Tenby
2 Oxford Scholar
3 Cambridge Savant
4 Such is Your Authority
5 St Paul's Churchyard
6 Doctor Recorde
7 Antiquarian and Mathematician
8 No Mean Divine
9 Comptroller of the King's Mints
10 The Muscovy Company
11 This Talk Delights Me Marvelously
12 Pedagogue and Poet
13 Surveyor of the Mines .md Monies
14 Nemesis
15 A Heart So Oppressed
16 An Unquiet Mind
17 One of His Elect in Glory
Epilogue
Notes and References
Select Bibliography
Index
List of Illustrations
Preface and Acknowledgments
Genealogy of Robert Recorde Physician
Prologue
1 Child of Tenby
2 Oxford Scholar
3 Cambridge Savant
4 Such is Your Authority
5 St Paul's Churchyard
6 Doctor Recorde
7 Antiquarian and Mathematician
8 No Mean Divine
9 Comptroller of the King's Mints
10 The Muscovy Company
11 This Talk Delights Me Marvelously
12 Pedagogue and Poet
13 Surveyor of the Mines .md Monies
14 Nemesis
15 A Heart So Oppressed
16 An Unquiet Mind
17 One of His Elect in Glory
Epilogue
Notes and References
Select Bibliography
Index
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