Robert Recorde, The Work and Practise of Arithmetic (1543)
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Date
1543
Author
Robert Recorde Note: 13/10/2005
Book title
The ground of artes teachyng the worke and practise of Arithmetike, moch necessary for all states of men. After a more easier & exacter sorte, then any lyke hath hytherto ben set forth: with dyuers newe additions, as by the table doth partly appeare
Publication place
London
Publisher
R. Wolf
Transcription source
British Library
Text type
printed book
Genre
Hard-word, term-of-art, and dialect dictionaries, glossaries, and definitions
Subject area
mathematics
Summary
On [*]8r-v, there are "Figures of nomber", and on B4v, explanations of "arsmetrike" and "augrym". Later, Recorde explains concepts such as numeration, numerator, and sum.
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
STC
20797.5
Other editions
28 editions 1549-1640: STC 20797.7-20814, especially
(a) 1561, augmented by J. Dee: STC 20800;
(b) 1582, augmented by J. Dee, corrected by J. Mellis: STC 20802;
(c) Records arthimeticke, by N. Norton (1615): STC 20806.5;
(d) 1618, enlarged by R. Hartwell: STC 20807; and
(e) 1623, with new tables: STC 20808
(a) 1561, augmented by J. Dee: STC 20800;
(b) 1582, augmented by J. Dee, corrected by J. Mellis: STC 20802;
(c) Records arthimeticke, by N. Norton (1615): STC 20806.5;
(d) 1618, enlarged by R. Hartwell: STC 20807; and
(e) 1623, with new tables: STC 20808
Criticisms
Larkey, Sanford V. "Scientific Glossaries in Sixteenth Century English Books." Bulletin of the Institute of the History of Medicine 5 (1937): 105-14. view record
Clarke, Frances Marguerite. "New Light on Robert Recorde." Isis 8.1, alt. no. 25 (1926): 50-70. view record
Heninger, S. K., Jr. "Tudor Literature of the Physical Sciences." Huntington Library Quarterly 32 (1968-69): 103-33, 249-70. 107, 109-10 . view record
Marsden, Bruce. "Seeking a Language in Mathematics 1523-1571." Reformation 1 (1996): 181-220. view record
Johnson, Francis R. "Robert Recorde's Mathematical Teaching and the Anti-Aristotelian Movement." Huntington Library Bulletin 7 (1935): 59-87. view record
Lloyd, Howell A. "`Famous in the Field of Number and Measure': Robert Recorde, Renaissance Mathematician." Welsh History Review 20 (2000): 254-82. view record
Clarke, Frances Marguerite. "New Light on Robert Recorde." Isis 8.1, alt. no. 25 (1926): 50-70. view record
Heninger, S. K., Jr. "Tudor Literature of the Physical Sciences." Huntington Library Quarterly 32 (1968-69): 103-33, 249-70. 107, 109-10 . view record
Marsden, Bruce. "Seeking a Language in Mathematics 1523-1571." Reformation 1 (1996): 181-220. view record
Johnson, Francis R. "Robert Recorde's Mathematical Teaching and the Anti-Aristotelian Movement." Huntington Library Bulletin 7 (1935): 59-87. view record
Lloyd, Howell A. "`Famous in the Field of Number and Measure': Robert Recorde, Renaissance Mathematician." Welsh History Review 20 (2000): 254-82. view record
