University of Wales Press | 2012 | 252 páginas | rar - pdf |3 Mb
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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.
Contents
List of illustrations vii
Notes on contributors ix
Acknowledgements xi
Preface xiii
Editorial conventions xvii
Introduction 1
1 The lives and works of Robert Recorde 7
Jack Williams
2 Robert Recorde and his remarkable Arithmetic 25
John Denniss and Fenny Smith
3 Recorde and The Vrinal of Physick: context, uroscopy and the practice of medicine 39
Margaret Pelling
4 The Pathway to Knowledg and the English Euclidean tradition 57
Jacqueline Stedall
5 The Castle of Knowledge: astronomy and the sphere 73
Stephen Johnston
6 The Whetstone of Witte: content and sources 93
Ulrich Reich
7 The Welsh context of Robert Recorde 123
Nia M. W. Powell
8 Commonwealth and Empire: Robert Recorde in Tudor England 145
Howell A. Lloyd
9 Data, computation and the Tudor knowledge economy 165
John V. Tucker
Appendix : From Recorde to relativity: a speculation 189
Gareth Wyn Evans
Bibliography 201
Index 219
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