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Robert Recorde : Tudor scholar and mathematician / Gordon Roberts.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Robert, Gordon, author.
- Series:
- Scientists of Wales.
- Scientists of Wales
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Recorde, Robert, 1510?-1558.
- Recorde, Robert.
- Mathematicians--Great Britain--Biography.
- Mathematicians.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (241 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2016.
- Summary:
- The enthralling biography of Robert Recorde, Tudor physician, mathematician, and learned savant.
- Contents:
- Cover; Title; Copyright; 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 andMathematician; 8. No Mean Divine; 9. Comptroller ofthe King's Mints; 10. The Muscovy Company; 11. This Talk DelightsMe Marvellously; 12. Pedagogue and Poet; 13. Surveyor of the Minesand Monies; 14. Nemesis; 15. A Heart So Oppressed; 16. An Unquiet Mind; 17. One of His Elect in Glory
- EpilogueNotes and References; Select Bibliography; Index; Back Cover
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 4, 2016).
- ISBN:
- 9781783168316
- 1783168315
- 9781783168309
- 1783168307
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