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Robert Recorde : Tudor scholar and mathematician / Gordon Roberts.
Van Pelt Library QA29.R336 R63 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Roberts, Gordon, 1937- author.
- Series:
- Scientists of Wales
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Recorde, Robert, 1510?-1558.
- Recorde, Robert.
- Mathematicians--Wales--Biography.
- Mathematicians.
- Mathematics--Wales--History--16th century.
- Mathematics.
- History.
- Wales.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 222 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- This enthralling biography tells the complete story of one of Tudor England's most enigmatic figures. A Welshman born in Tenby, south Wales, c.1512, Robert Recorde was educated at Oxford and at Cambridge. This book, is a detailed biography of this Tudor scholar, reviews the many facets of his astonishingly wide-ranging career and ultimately tragic life. It presents a richly detailed and fully rounded picture of Recorde the man, the university academic and theologian, the physician, the mathematician and astronomer, the antiquarian, and the writer of hugely successful textbooks. Crown appointments brought Recorde into conflict with the scheming Earl of Pembroke, and eventually set him at odds with Queen Mary I. As an intellectual out of his depth in political intrigue, beset by religious turmoil, Recorde eventually succumbed to the dangers that closed inexorably around him. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 Child of Tenby 7
- 2 Oxford Scholar 17
- 3 Cambridge Savant 27
- 4 Such is Your Authority 39
- 5 St Paul's Churchyard 53
- 6 Doctor Recorde 63
- 7 Antiquarian and Mathematician 75
- 8 No Mean Divine 87
- 9 Comptroller of the King's Mints 97
- 10 The Muscovy Company 107
- 11 This Talk Delights Me Marvellously 117
- 12 Pedagogue and Poet 129
- 13 Surveyor of the Mines and Monies 143
- 14 Nemesis 153
- 15 A Heart So Oppressed 165
- 16 An Unquiet Mind 177
- 17 One of His Elect in Glory 189.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-216) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781783168293
- 1783168293
- 9781783168545
- 1783168544
- OCLC:
- 957142834
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