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RECORDE, ROBERT (c. 1510-1558) , Welsh physician and mathematician, was descended from a respectable family of Tenby in Wales. He entered the university of Oxford
medicine
Cambridge , where he took the degree of M.D. in 1545. He afterwards returned to Oxford
mathematics
Cambridge . It appears that he afterwards went to London, and acted as physician to Edward
Mary , to whom some of his books are dedicated. He died in the King's Bench prison, Southwark, where he was con-fined for debt, in 1558.Recorde published several works upon mathematical subjects, chiefly in the form of dialogue between master and scholar, viz.:The Grounde of Artes, teachings the Worke and Practise of Arithmeticke, both in whole numbers and fractions (1540); The Pathway to Knowledge, containing the First Principles of Geometry . bothe for the use of Instrumentes Geometricall and Astronomicall, and also for Projection of Plattes (London, 1551) ; The Castle of Know-ledge, containing the Explication of the Sphere both Celestiall and Materiall, &c. (London, 1556) ; The Whetstone of Witte, which is the second part
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