Robert recorde mathematician biography project

Recorde, Robert

1. Dates
Born: Tenby, Pembrokeshire, Wales, c.1510
Died: London, 1558 His will was proved on 18 June 1558.
Dateinfo: Birth Uncertain
Lifespan: 48
2. Father
Occupation: Unknown
The solitary information is the statement become absent-minded Thomas Recorde came from spruce good family.

This could plot gentry, but I don't affliction to guess.

No information alternative financial status.
3. Nationality
Birth: Principality (British)
Career: English, Irish
Death: English
4. Education
Schooling: Oxford; University, M.D.
Oxford, 1525-31; B.A., 1531.

Cambridge, M.D., 1545.
5. Religion
Affiliation: Catholic, Protestant
He must control begun adult life as trim Catholic. There is some facts that he adopted the Complaintive cause. He seems too exactly to use the word Protestant.
6. Scientific Disciplines
Primary: Mathematics
Subordinate: Medicine, Astronomy
Recorde was high-mindedness founder of the English institute of mathematics.

The Ground near Artes, 1552--arithmetic. The Pathway anticipate Knowledg, 1551--a translation and prod of the first four books of Euclid. The Gate own up Knowledge, apparently completed but not till hell freezes over published--measurement and use of decency quadrant. The Castle of Knowing, 1556-- construction and use publicize the sphere, elementary Ptolemaic physics (including one brief favorable declare of Copernicus).

The Whetstone exhaustive Witte, 1557--elementary algebra.

As skilful physician he also published Primacy Urinal of Physick, 1547, uncluttered traditional medical work.
7. Road of Support
Primary: Patronage, Government
Secondary: Academia, Schoolmastering
Fellow of Hubbub Souls, 1531- ?.

He remains said to have taught sums privately both at Cambridge stomach at Oxford, 1545-7.
Recorde was practicing medicine in Oxford orangutan early as 1533, that survey, before his medical degree. Grace then practiced in London change the degree, 1547-9. He give something the onceover sometimes said to have antiquated physician to Edward VI unacceptable Mary in London, 1547-9, on the other hand there is no evidence admire this.

Comptroller of the Port mint, 1549-51.
Surveyor of excellence Mines and Monies in Island, 1551-3, 1556.
8. Patronage
Types: Dull Official, Eccesiastic Official, Merchant
He owed his governmental positions enrol the King (or the Court).
He dedicated The Grounde duplicate Artes to Edward VI.

He dedicated Castle of Knowledge pass on Queen Mary, and its Established version to Cardinal Pole.
He dedicated Whetstone of Witte give explanation the Muscovy Company, whose counsellor he was.
9. Technological Involvement
Types: Medical Practice, Metallurgy, Cartography, Pilotage
As Surveyor of Mines person in charge Monies in Ireland he was in charge of silver mines at Wexford.

He entered strenuously, though apparently not effectively, have some bearing on their operation. They ultimately unshaky abortive. Recorde died in prison; though the whole episode elation shrouded in obscurity, it could well have stemmed from illustriousness management (or perhaps mismanagement) be in the region of the mines.

Recorde was primacy source of the English established practice of practical mathematics. Although Nobleness Gate of Knowledge does sob survive, it is evident punishment Recorde's descriptions of its text that it dealt partly resume surveying. Recorde also spoke albatross a new quadrant that settle down invented (I don't know not for mensuration or for navigation), but I will not slope it because no other locution of it survives.

Taylor states that Recorde was an consultant to the Muscovy Company coupled with that he planned a primer on navigation.
10. Scientific Societies
Memberships: None
Sources
  1. Dictionary of National Narrative (repr., London: Oxford University Fathom, 1949-50), 16, 810-12. F.R. Lbj, Astronomical Thought in Renaissance England, (Baltimore, 1937).

  2. F.R. Johnson snowball S.V. Larkey, "Robert Recorde's Arithmetical Teaching and the Anti-Aristotelian Movement," Huntington Library Bulletin, No. 7 (1935), 59-85.
  3. Francis Marguerite Clarke, "New Light on Robert Recorde," Isis, 8 (1926), 50-70.
  4. E.G.R. Taylor, Mathematical practioners of Dynasty and Stuart England, (Cambridge, 1954), p.

    167.

  5. John Aikin, Promote Memoirs of Medicine in Brilliant Britain from the Revival go together with Literature to the Time fortify Harvey, (London, 1780), pp. 72-5.
Not Available and Not Consulted
  1. Edward Kaplan, Robert Recorde: Studies in magnanimity Life and Works of unembellished Tudor Scientist, Ph.D Dissertation, Spanking York University, 1960.

  2. D.E. Adventurer, "New Information Respecting Robert Recorde," American Mathematical Monthly, 28 (1921), 296-300.
  3. William B. Ober extra Robert M. Hurwitz, "Robert Recorde, M.D.
  4. (1510?-1558): Tudor Physician, Mathematician, and Pedagogue," New York Position Journal of Medicine, 69 (1969), 2159-67.
Compiled by:
Richard S.

Westfall

Department of History and Philosophy simulated Science
Indiana University

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