Robert Recorde

Gordon Roberts

Description

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 both Oxford and Cambridge. This book, 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.
Author’s Forward and Acknowledgments
Prologue
Chapter 01 – Child of Tenby
Chapter 02 – Oxford Scholar
Chapter 03 – Cambridge Savant
Chapter 04 – Such is Your Authority
Chapter 05 – St Paul’s Churchyard
Chapter 06 – Doctor Recorde
Chapter 07 – Antiquarian and Mathematician
Chapter 08 – No Mean Divine
Chapter 09 – Comptroller of the King’s Mints
Chapter 10 – The Muscovy Company
Chapter 11 – This Talk Delights Me Marvellously
Chapter 12 – Pedagogue and Poet
Chapter 13 – Surveyor of the Mines and Monies
Chapter 14 – Nemesis
Chapter 15 – A Heart So Oppressed
Chapter 16 – An Unquiet Mind
Chapter 17 – One of His Elect in Glory
Epilogue

Sujets

• Sciences formelles
• Histoire des mathématiques
• Wales
• History
• Mathematics
• Philosophy
• Sciences et techniques

Informations

• Publié par: University of Wales Press
• Date de parution: 15 mai 2016
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781783168309
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 42 Mo

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Robert Recorde TUDOR SCHOLAR AND MATHEMATICIAN

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