Robert Recorde : tudor scholar and mathematician /
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 as...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cardiff :
University of Wales Press,
2016.
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| Series: | Scientists of Wales.
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| Online Access: | Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed) |
| 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 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 222 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-216) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781783168309 1783168307 9781783168316 1783168315 |