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Robert Recorde
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Author : Gordon Roberts
language : en
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Release Date : 2016-05-15
Robert Recorde written by Gordon Roberts and has been published by University of Wales Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-15 with Mathematics categories.
First full-length biography of Robert Recorde. This will benefit general readers wanting a chronological history of his life, or those interested in learning more about him in relation to other events in the Tudor period. Two chapters devoted to Recorde’s academic studies at Oxford and Cambridge. This will benefit readers interested in the life of scholars at university during the Tudor period. Describes the training and practice of a physician, of interest to readers pursuing the history of medicine in the Tudor period. Book contains numerous extracts from Recorde’s own writings transcribed into Modern English. Of benefit to readers wanting to read the original texts written in Early Modern English.
Robert Recorde
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Release Date : 2012-09-15
Robert Recorde written by and has been published by University of Wales Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The inventor of the equals sign (=), Robert Recorde (1510?-1558) was the first English-writing mathematics educator: this book celebrates his work.
Robert Recorde
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Author : Jack Williams
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2011-11-19
Robert Recorde written by Jack Williams and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-19 with Computers categories.
The 16th-Century intellectual Robert Recorde is chiefly remembered for introducing the equals sign into algebra, yet the greater significance and broader scope of his work is often overlooked. This book presents an authoritative and in-depth analysis of the man, his achievements and his historical importance. This scholarly yet accessible work examines the latest evidence on all aspects of Recorde’s life, throwing new light on a character deserving of greater recognition. Topics and features: presents a concise chronology of Recorde’s life; examines his published works; describes Recorde’s professional activities in the minting of money and the mining of silver, as well as his dispute with William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke; investigates Recorde’s work as a physician, his linguistic and antiquarian interests, and his religious beliefs; discusses the influence of Recorde’s publisher, Reyner Wolfe, in his life; reviews his legacy to 17th-Century science, and to modern computer science and mathematics.
Robert Recorde
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Release Date : 2012-09-15
Robert Recorde written by and has been published by University of Wales Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Recent research has revealed new information about the Welsh Tudor mathematician, Robert Recorde who invented the equals sign (=) – what inspired his work and what was its influence on the development of mathematics education in the English-speaking world. The findings of that research, presented at a commemorative conference in 2008, form the core of this publication. The book begins with an account of Recorde’s life and an overview of his work in mathematics, medicine and cosmography. Individual chapters concentrate on each of his books in turn, taken chronologically, and are supplemented by chapters that present historical perspectives of Recorde’s work and its wider European links and one that sets Recorde’s work within the general knowledge economy.
Robert Recorde
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Author : Gareth Roberts
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
Robert Recorde written by Gareth Roberts and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Mathematicians categories.
The Pathway To Knowledge
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Author : Robert Recorde
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
Release Date : 2013
The Pathway To Knowledge written by Robert Recorde and has been published by Createspace Independent Pub this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Mathematics categories.
The first edition of Robert Recorde's The Pathway to Knowledge was printed in London, at the sign of the Brazen Serpent, by Reynold Wolfe in 1551. This book is the earliest work on geometry in the English language and was used as a standard textbook well into the middle of the seventeenth century. Recorde's prose is delightfully rhythmical and his poetical phrasing perhaps made learning less of a chore than otherwise for his studious readers. That he well knew this book, although modelled after Euclid, was breaking new ground is evidenced by his statement in the preface to the theorems: 'For nother is there anie matter more straunge in the english tongue, than this whereof never booke was written before now, in that tongue, and therefore oughte to delite all them, that desire to understand straunge matters, as most men commonlie doo'. Recorde encountered an unexpected difficulty when setting out to teach Euclidean geometry to English readers. He found that the English language did not (at that time) have a sufficiency of technical terms. But rather than use longstanding Latin or Greek words, he invented his own English equivalents. So for example, obtuse angles are 'blunt corners', an equilateral triangle is a 'threelike' and a square is a 'likeside'. Unfortunately, Recorde's terminology was not taken up and did not survive the passage of time. Hence schoolchildren in geometry lessons today have to wrestle with difficult Latin words like tangent, instead of Recorde's much more homely and easily understood 'touch line'. The mathematical text itself is extremely lucid in both exposition and diagrams, proceeding from a list of definitions through forty-six constructions and seventy-seven theorems. At the start of the definitions is the statement that 'Geometry teacheth the drawyng, measuring and proporcion of figures' and history produced no finer or more eloquent tutor in the subject than Robert Recorde.
The Path Way To Knowledg
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Author : Robert Recorde
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2015-05-10
The Path Way To Knowledg written by Robert Recorde and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-05-10 with categories.
"The Path Way to Knowledg" from Robert Recorde. Robert Recorde, welsh physician and mathematician (1512-1558).
The Castle Of Knowledge
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Author : Robert 1510?-1558 Recorde
language : en
Publisher: Legare Street Press
Release Date : 2021-09-09
The Castle Of Knowledge written by Robert 1510?-1558 Recorde and has been published by Legare Street Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-09-09 with categories.
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Robert Recorde And William Gilbert
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Author : Robert Recorde
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Robert Recorde And William Gilbert written by Robert Recorde and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with Algebra categories.
The whetstone of witte : A book on sophisticated arithmetic, beginning with a discussion of the properties of numbers, sectioned into figurative numbers, abundant numbers, and deficit numbers. The latter part deals with algebra. It is in this book that Recorde introduces the equals sign (=) as a concept.
The Castle Of Knowledge
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Author : Robert Recorde
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
Release Date : 2012-08-01
The Castle Of Knowledge written by Robert Recorde and has been published by Createspace Independent Pub this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-01 with Science categories.
The first edition of Robert Recorde's The Castle of Knowledge was printed at London by Reginalde Wolfe in 1556. The work is a treatise on the celestial sphere, written in the form of a dialogue between a master and a scholar. It is an original and exhaustive study intended to modernise Proclus and Sacrobosco. It deals chiefly with Ptolemaic astronomy but also includes some geographical information as understood in Recorde's time. In the preface to the reader he extols the heavens as God's handiwork and consequently meet for study. He also praises the rare wisdom and practical knowledge that astronomy bestows, thereby soliciting approval of both the old heaven and the new earth. Recorde's writings reflect the strong traditions which he, in common with most educated people of his time, found difficult to discard. These Aristotelian and Ptolemaic traditions postulated that the sub-lunary realm, the seat of the base elements, was subject to change and corruption; in contrast, the heavenly or celestial realm was necessarily pure, immutable and eternal. However, in this book Recorde provides the English reading public with the first significant reference to the heliocentric theories of Nicholas Copernicus. In the guise of the master he briefly mentions the theories to his scholar, explaining that according to Copernicus the sun is at the centre of the world and not the earth, and that the earth moves. This elicits the response from the scholar: 'I desire not to heare such vaine phantasies, so farre against common reason... and therefore lette it passe for ever, and a daye longer'. At which the master reacts by admonishing him, telling him that he was 'to yonge to be a good iudge in so greate a matter: it passeth farre your learning... therefore you were best to condemne no thinge that you do not well vnderstand'. The Castle of Knowledge was reprinted in 1596, forty years after the first edition, by which time it was already outdated by later works on Copernican astronomy.